Gabriel Boudier Creme D'Abricots Tonka 20% 350ml

Brand: Gabriel Boudier (in Collaboration with the Culinary Team of a Three-Michelin-Starred Saulieu Restaurant)

Release Name: Crème d'Abricots Fèves de Tonka (Apricot & Tonka Bean Liqueur)

Spirit Style / Type: French Fruit Liqueur (Crème de Fruits), Chef-Collaborative Series

Composition: Apricots, Tonka Bean, Sugar, Neutral Spirit

Age: Non-Vintage

Volume: 350ml Bottle

Alc / Vol (%): 20.0%

Country: France

Region: Dijon, Burgundy

Production Method: Maceration/Infusion, Part of a Chef-Collaborative Flavour Series

Limited Edition: No (Standing Release Within Gabriel Boudier's Collaborative Culinary Liqueur Series)

Award Winner: Not independently confirmed with a specific competition score for this exact product at time of writing

Gabriel Boudier is a family-owned French liqueur house founded in 1874 in Dijon, originally established in the house of Fontbonne before Gabriel Boudier took over the business in 1909 and renamed it after himself. In 1936, following Boudier's death, his widow sold the house to Marcel Battault, whose family has steered Gabriel Boudier ever since — making it the only remaining independently owned liqueur producer among what were once more than 50 fruit liqueur houses in Burgundy. Renowned worldwide for its award-winning Crème de Cassis de Dijon, Gabriel Boudier uses only natural fruits, flowers and botanicals across its range, avoiding artificial flavours and colours, and continues to innovate through its cocktail-focused Bartender Range alongside classic, traditional expressions like this Chestnut Liqueur.

This liqueur is part of a genuinely distinctive collaborative series, created by pairing Gabriel Boudier's liqueur-making expertise with the culinary team behind one of Burgundy's most celebrated restaurants in Saulieu — a three-Michelin-star kitchen maintained continuously by head sommelier Éric Goettelmann and chef Patrick Bertron. Working with Jean Battault, owner of Gabriel Boudier, the team developed a range of liqueurs and crèmes specifically designed to appeal to chefs and mixologists, using flavour combinations you wouldn't typically find in a standard fruit liqueur range — this apricot and tonka bean pairing among them. Tonka bean itself is a distinctive, chef-favoured ingredient, prized for a warm, complex character often compared to vanilla, almond and freshly cut hay, and its inclusion here signals a liqueur built with genuine culinary intent rather than mass-market appeal. As with the rest of this collaborative series (which also includes pairings like blackcurrant and gingerbread, raspberry and thyme, and strawberry and Tasmanian pepper), it's a genuinely interesting, conversation-starting addition for customers exploring beyond classic Crème de Cassis or Crème de Pêches — well suited to creative cocktail work or use in dessert pairings.