Love Drinks has kicked off 2025 with the roll out of Brunette – a stunning small batch, organic cold brew coffee liqueur from France’s innovative Bordeaux Distilling Co.
Embodying Bordeaux’s historic drinks heritage, expertise and craftsmanship, Brunette is made using 100% naturally organic ingredients and artisan processes to extract maximum flavour and aromatics from the sustainably sourced coffee beans.
An ultra-premium coffee liqueur that mirrors the craft coffee scene and better connects with the UK’s discerning and knowledgeable coffee lovers, Brunette shows a similar reverence to the provenance, selection, washing, roasting and blending of its beans.
The world’s first certified organic coffee liqueur, Brunette is produced at the Bordeaux Distilling Co. in close collaboration with a local craft coffee roaster, who specialise in carefully sourcing and roasting the finest sustainable seasonal beans from world-class plantations and producers.
Brunette uses coffee beans sourced from high altitudes including honey washed red catuai and icatu beans from La Victoria, Honduras, natural heirloom Gidaamii beans and washed heirloom Gera beans, both from Ethiopia.
Crafted with precision, the special blend of Arabica coffee beans undergoes a New England Medium Roast and provides unique aromas of cacao and almond. The blend is ground and then steeped in natural spring water for a 48-hour cold brew extraction with 150g of the coffee blend used per litre.
High-class French winter wheat neutral grain alcohol from Picardy in northern France is then added before the liquid undergoes a 6-week maturation period in steel tanks. Meticulous filtration follows before a blend of unrefined sugar cane and golden rapadura sugar is added to sweeten and provide molasses-like nuances. The Brunette Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur is then hand-bottled with an ABV of 25%.
Available in a 70cl bottle, Brunette has zero additives or colourings and contains less sugar than any other coffee liqueur on the market, allowing the provenance of the beans and the blend to sing.
Brunette has quickly become the coffee liqueur of choice for some of the UK’s leading bars, hotels and restaurants such as Hakkasan Restaurants, Sushi Samba, Donovan Bar, Hutong Shard, 45 Park Lane, Studio Frantzen and Quaglino’s.
Samantha Burke, Managing Director of Love Drinks, commented: “Coffee overtook tea as the nation’s favourite drink in 2023 and the Espresso Martini continues to be a dominant force in the world of cocktails so we’re very excited to take on the distribution for this high-class coffee liqueur. With its organic credentials, craft production methods, serious quality and story, Brunette has rampantly raised the bar in the coffee liqueur sector. For the growing number of coffee connoisseurs and cocktail lovers, Brunette is a must try and a brand that is perfectly placed to take the coffee cocktail arena into new frontiers.”
Antoine Gravouil, Bordeaux Distilling Co’s Master of Ceremonies, commented: “Love Drinks have played a huge role in driving interest in coffee liqueurs and the sector as a whole in the last decade so we’re delighted to have joined their eclectic portfolio. We’re supremely confident in the quality of the product and believe 2025 will be a huge year for coffee and the next wave of innovative coffee drinks and serves. Watch this space.”
About Love Drinks
Love Drinks is an independent import, distribution and marketing company for premium quality spirits, liqueurs and craft beers. Their portfolio represents quality, craft-distilled and family-owned brands that have a rich provenance, heritage and history.
Founded by Kirsty Loveday BEM in 2007, Love Drinks represent Abelha Organic Cachaça, The Bitter Truth Cocktail Range of Bitters and Liqueurs, Conker Distillery, Einstök Icelandic Craft Beers, Goslings Bermuda Rums, Hernö Gins, Ron Matusalem, The Ikigai Collection from BBC Spirits, Puerto De Indias, Virtuous Spirits, White Heron Drinks and the Recuerdo and ZIGNUM® Mezcal Brands.
Love Drinks pioneered Love Well – an initiative to help the health and wellbeing of people working in the hospitality industry. The company was named Drinks Business Drinks Distributor of the Year in 2019.
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