Combier - Kümmel (700ml)
Combier Description
The Combier story began nearly 180 years ago at 48 Rue Beaurepaire in the picturesque village of Saumur, just 200 miles southwest of Paris in the heart of France’s historic Loire Valley. Local confectioners by trade, Jean-Baptiste Combier and his wife started distilling out the back room of their sweet shop. Together, they shared a dream of inventing something new; something that had never existed before; something with just the right spice, just the right smell, and just the right taste.
In 1834 Jean-Baptiste Combier and his wife open the Combier-Destre confectionary in Saumur in the heart of the Loire Valley. There, they fill their delicious chocolates with liqueurs made on the small still in the shops back room. Soon the liqueur become more sought after than the chocolates. One in particular, created using Sun-dried orange peels from the West Indies arriving to the ports of Saumur, is the talk of not only the town but all of France. This delicate crystalline orange liqueur would became the world’s first triple sec: Combier Liqueur d’Orange.
The Combier Distillery is one of the oldest in the Loire Valley. After the success of his Triple Sec, Jean Baptiste decided to devote himself fully to making liqueurs and in 1848 he built a full distillery, right next to the Saumur Cavalry School in the very heart of Saumur. Combier has always benefited from its position in the center of the Jardin de la France to stock up on local products: fruits, flowers and aromatic plants. Jean Baptiste and later his son James would use this bounty to create some of France and Europes most beloved and modern liqueurs.
Kümmel is a sweet, colorless liqueur flavored with caraway seed, cumin, and fennel.
Combier Kümmel made its debut at the Combier Distillery in the mid-19th century satisfying the demands of British, Dutch, German and Russian elite enamored with the liqueur’s medicinal and aromatic properties. It is re-released today with the same powerful, lifted aromas and refined taste it became known for more than 150 years ago.
How to Enjoy: Best enjoyed neat as an after dinner digestif.
