Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. He lives in New York City with his wife, Karen. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. On the one hand, it is what it sounds like: an orange-flavored liqueur. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Products range from spicy and bitter and nicely restrained in their sweetness, to cloying and syrupy and hardly bitter at all. Try again. Grand Marnier, the other heavyweight in the category, is in the slightly sweeter curaçao camp. Triple sec probably originated in France as an offshoot style of orange curaçao. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.co.uk (UK). You might expect that products labeled “curaçao” would have to include oranges from that island, but no such rule exists. This is how curaçao was likely born. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.co.uk. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. But there are a few important facts we do know. Watch Queue Queue. Cointreau, among the best-known brands of orange liqueur, is a triple sec in style, even though it’s not labeled as such. Orange liqueur, which made an appearance in last week’s 9-Bottle Bar recipe, for the 1930s-vintage XYZ cocktail, is at once very easy and very tricky to explain. The island would later become a Dutch property. Today’s orange liqueurs feature a wide variety of spirit bases, from grape-based French cognac to rum to plain old neutral grain spirits (essentially vodka). It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Sec means “dry” in French, and, while the meaning of the “triple” in the name remains in dispute, triple secs are known to be drier (i.e., less sweet) in style than curaçaos (leading some to believe that “triple” is meant to suggest three times as dry). This video is unavailable. Sec means “dry” in French, and, while the meaning of the “triple” in the name remains in dispute, triple secs are known to be drier (i.e., less sweet) in style than curaçaos (leading some to believe that “triple” is meant to suggest three times as dry). Historical information on the subject isn’t plentiful, and so not much of a guide. We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, to provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Numerous other brands fill out the current market, as well as the flavor spectrum, for orange liqueur. The bitter, aromatic peels of these wild-grown oranges, when dried out, would ultimately prove a popular flavoring for spirits back in the Old World. Triple sec probably originated in France as an offshoot style of orange curaçao. With July’s arrival, The 9-Bottle Bar crosses its halfway point, shifting focus from bottle number four in our trim, no-nonsense brigade to bottle number five. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. While both orange curaçao and triple sec are types of orange liqueurs, the two terms are not exactly interchangeable — at least by their generally accepted (yet loose and unregulated) definitions. Discussed to date: rye whiskey, London dry gin, sweet vermouth, and light rum. Got a tip, kitchen tour, or other story our readers should see? Curaçao gets its name from the island off the Venezuelan coast, where the Spanish cultivated Valencia oranges following their arrival from Europe. He's a widely published writer and photographer whose work has been featured on Serious Eats, PUNCH, and Food & Wine online. And I suppose from that comparison you can guess where my preferences lie. Roger is the Cocktail & Liquor Columnist at The Kitchn. 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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. You may be wondering, What’s curaçao? Now we turn our attention to orange liqueur, an often-reached-for mixing ingredient practically since the dawn of the cocktail. Typically, liqueurs are classified as spirits that have been sweetened, and orange liqueurs fit that description.