The Lillet is a Apéritif liqueur-like containing Vin (85%) and of Liqueur of Fruit S (15%) (soft oranges of the South of the Spain, bitter oranges of Haiti, green oranges of the Morocco or the Tunisia, Quinquina of the Peru).

The Société Lillet Frères was founded with Podensac, in the Gironde in 1872 (spirit and spirit merchants and wine merchants). Lillet is born in 1887. The idea to associate wines of Bordeaux wine and plants or fruits exotic comes from the Kermann father, Médecin party with the Brésil under Louis XVI and returned to settle with Bordeaux where it then produces liquors and tonics mainly containing Quinquina. Bordeaux is then one of the principal places of trade of the wine and the French main port towards the the Antilles.

The duchess of Windsor, large amatrice of Lillet will make of it the reputation in several great establishments London Paris iens and . In 1946, he is success with the the United States thanks to the trader New Yorkean Michel Dreyfus.

Red Lillet is invented in 1962 per Pierre Lillet.

In 1985, Bruno Borie repurchases Lillet and in 1986 new Lillet leaves.

In Casino Royal , James Bond invents and orders a Kina Lillet Martini , Cocktail which it names Vesper and which begins again, except for the comma, the receipt written by Ian Fleming in Espions made your plays , novel from where the film is drawn.

External bond

• Official site (Lillet.com)