Cointreau

The Cointreau is a liquor with orange, produced in the area of Angers.

General presentation

The company Rémy Cointreau is a company of manufacture of Liqueur to the orange and of champagnes. The company is based with Saint-Barthelemy-in Anjou, in periphery of the town of Angers in the Département of Maine-et-Loire.

The oranges used with its production come from Spain, the Brésil and Haiti.

Cointreau is as well used cooks some as as drink. It is sometimes used as Digestif but also for other uses of which the Apéritif S. It is seldom consumed pure. Cointreau is a Triple dryness. With its 40% of alcohol, Cointreau would be dry triple extremely: in general, these liquors have an alcohol level bordering the 23%; therefore it is to best consume with moderation.

Production

The Cointreau company was founded in 1849 street Saint-Aubin with Angers by the brothers Adolphe and Edouard-Jean Cointreau, confectioners; their first success was the Guignolet, alcohol of cherry whose receipt had been forgotten until they reproduce it. But it will be their liquor, development in 1875, containing sugar beet sugar alcohol and bitter orange skin pure, which will make the final success of the company. Currently, one considers the number annual of bottles sold with more than 13 million, in more than 200 countries. 95% of the production are sold out of France.

The method of production is a secrecy of family. On the other hand distilling is partially opened with the public within the framework of a museum inaugurated for the 150 years of the company in 1999, even if certain places is protected and prohibited with the photographs.

Stock exchange data

Shares quoted with the Bourse de Paris
Member of the index CAC Mid 100
Code Value ISIN = FR0000130395
Face value = euro
Principal shareholders:

Family Hériard Dubreuil 45%

The Cointreau museum

The Cointreau museum presents, on 3.000 m ², nearly 4.000 documents and objects exposed in the middle of the production site of the famous Cointreau liquor.

Polemic

Haiti and owns has Minority interest. Campaigners claimed that Guacimal refused to enter into meaningful agreements with the legally registered workers' unions. Furthermore there were representative carryforwards that off Guacimal' S management violently threatened and attacked union members. Rémy Cointreau publicly stated its intention to cuts local laws and customs respected wherever it conducts its business, and the above actions illegal are in Haiti. It is not known precisely whether the situation has been resolved, though this may Be partly due to the unrest in Haiti in 2004. There are No carryforwards relating to Guacimal' S Intimidation since 2002. -->

Cocktails

Cointreau also is very appreciated in the composition of Cocktails.

Cointreaupolitan

Cointreaupolitan is the creation of a bar of South Beach to Miami tonic at 1993. This cocktail is voted by plebiscite on the other side of the Atlantic and appears in particular in the American series " Sex and the City ".

For a person:

5cl of Cointreau
3cl of juice of Cranberry (cranberry juice)
2cl of lemon juice

To strike with the shaker with ice floes and to be useful

B-52

See also: detailed Contenu=Article: [[B-52 (cocktail)]], [[B-52]]

Angevine soup

Soup angevine is a typical cocktail of the area angevine. It is a cocktail festive, refreshing and simple to realize.

For 8 people:

75cl of effervescent wine (preferably of creaming Saumur)
12cl of Cointreau
12cl of syrup of cane sugar
12cl of lemon juice

External bonds

Official site of Cointreau
Official site of Cointreau
Official site of the cocktail Cointreaupolitan
Receipts of Cocktails with of Cointreau

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