Curaçao triple sec
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| Type | Liqueur |
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| Manufacturer | (various) |
| Country of origin | Saumur, France |
| Introduced | 1849 |
| Alcohol by volume | 15% to 40% |
| Color | Clear, golden, blue |
| Flavor | Orange |
Triple sec, (meaning "Triple distilled") originally Curaçao triple sec, is a strong, sweet and colorless orange flavored liqueur. It is a variety of Curaçao liqueur, an orange-flavoured liqueur made from the dried peels of bitter and sweet orange.
'Triple sec' is so named because of the triple-copper-still-distillation process through which the oranges or fruits that go into it are subjected. The 'sec' part of 'triple sec' means "dry" and is borrowed directly from French, sec, which, in turn, received it from the Classical Latin word, siccus and the cognate Classical Latin verbal infinitive, siccare, which means "to dry; to dry up; to make dry; to remove moisture." This sense of 'dry' is not dry in the sense of 'lack of sweetness' of the liquor or spirit, as is in the case with wine-speak. It is the fact that the oranges and fruits that go into triple sec are dried prior to the distillation process.
Triple sec may be consumed neat as a digestif or on the rocks, but is more typically used as an ingredient in a variety of cocktails such as sangria, margarita, Kamikaze, White Lady, Long Island Iced Tea, Sidecar, Skittle Bomb, Corpse Reviver #2 and Cosmopolitan.
The Combier distillery claims that triple sec was invented some time between 1834 and 1848 by Jean-Baptiste Combier in Saumur, France. However, Combier was more famous for its élixir Combier, which contained orange but also many other flavorings.
According to Cointreau, its orange liqueur was created in 1849.
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