Pierre Ferrand Yuzu Dry Curacao Liqueur 700ml

Pierre Ferrand's Yuzu Late Harvest Dry Curaçao comes from Maison Ferrand, the Grande Champagne cognac house Alexandre Gabriel founded in 1989. Working again with cocktail historian David Wondrich, Gabriel took the house's historically inspired Dry Curaçao recipe, originally built around bitter orange peel, and reworked it around yuzu, the aromatic Japanese citrus, giving the classic nineteenth-century style a distinctly modern, East-meets-West twist within Ferrand's broader curaçao range.

The fruit for this release comes from L'Agrumiste, a biodiverse citrus orchard in Morocco, where the yuzu is deliberately left on the tree past its usual autumn harvest and picked in February instead, a late-harvest approach that concentrates its aromatic oils and natural sweetness. Whole yuzu fruits are macerated in grape spirit for about a week, then distilled in traditional copper pot stills. The resulting distillate is blended with bourbon vanilla, aged brandy, and Ferrand's own cognac before bottling at forty percent alcohol by volume.

The nose is vivid with yuzu and mandarin, layered with marzipan, rose, and geranium. On the palate, candied citrus and tangerine give way to tropical fruit, almond, plum, and toffee, with nutmeg adding gentle spice through a long, aromatic, vanilla-tinged finish.