Vedrenne Liqueur de Litchi (Lychee) 700ml 15%

Brand: Vedrenne

Release Name: Liqueur de Litchi (Lychee Liqueur)

Spirit Style / Type: French Fruit Liqueur (Crème de Fruits — Lychee)

Composition: Lychee Alcoholate (Distilled from Pitted, Skinned Lychees), Sugar, Neutral Spirit

Age: Non-Vintage

Volume: 700ml Bottle

Alc / Vol (%): 15.0%

Country: France

Region: Burgundy (Nuits-Saint-Georges)

Production Method: Lychee Alcoholate Distilled in Vedrenne's Own Alambic Stills

Limited Edition: No (Vedrenne's Standing Liqueur de Litchi Release)

Award Winner: Not independently confirmed with a specific competition score for this exact product — Vedrenne as a house receives numerous medals annually across its wider liqueur range, particularly for its SUPERCASSIS Crème de Cassis

Vedrenne has been making liqueurs since 1923 in Nuits-Saint-Georges, in the heart of Burgundy, initially winning recognition for the outstanding quality of its Crèmes de Cassis and fruit liqueurs. Now widely regarded as the third leading French producer of fruit and cocktail liqueurs, and the leader in the upmarket segment for bartenders, mixologists and connoisseurs, Vedrenne combines over a century of expertise with modern processing techniques across a wide range spanning liqueurs, aperitifs, fortified wines, fruit eaux de vie and syrups. The brand operates a museum devoted to Cassis at its main production site, alongside a smaller, more experimental distillery in the Dordogne/Périgord region, and its liqueurs receive numerous international awards each year for exceptional quality.

Lychees are notoriously fiddly to work with — peeling and pitting the fruit is genuinely time-consuming — and Vedrenne solves that problem by distilling the fruit itself into a genuine lychee alcoholate in the house's own alambic stills, with lychees pitted and skinned before distillation for a purer, more concentrated result than a simple infusion. Lychee itself is a rare subtropical fruit originating in Southern China, famed there as "the King of Fruits" for its crisp, sub-acid sweetness, and Vedrenne's liqueur captures that character genuinely rather than relying on artificial tropical flavouring. It's a versatile bar ingredient, well suited to Champagne cocktails (double-strained into a flute and topped with sparkling wine), classic tumbler serves over ice garnished with dehydrated pineapple, or lengthened into longer tropical drinks. As part of Vedrenne's range of more than 30 cocktail liqueurs, built on the same century of maceration and distillation expertise behind the house's celebrated Crème de Cassis, it's a reliable, genuinely fruit-driven option for customers wanting real lychee character in a bottle.