France at the neck: legendary history of white blackcurrant - L'Incorrect

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France at the neck: legendary history of white blackcurrant - L'Incorrect

The crème de cassis was born in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its distant ancestor was the "Ratafia de Neuilly", a red wine in which blackcurrant berries were soaked. Anyone who had a piece of garden in Dijon made his ratafia. Suffice it to say that it was of poor quality! To remedy the headaches, Auguste-Denis Lagoute, owner of the Café des Mille Colonles in Dijon, improvized liquorist. Resented by the "Ratafia de Neuilly", he developed…