LILLET AROUND THE WORLD!The French love to travel, and so does Lillet!
Find us in more than 50 countries around the world and explore the best places to enjoy your favourite apéritif. Maybe in the busy center of New York, or on a warm beach in Rio de Janeiro? Whatever the place, we got the Lillet.
See you out there!
Lillet is a subtle blend of wines and fruit infusions, the result of traditional craftsmanship and of expertise dating back nearly 150 years.
The Bordeaux region’s winemaking heritage, together with the fruit infusions at the heart of Maison Lillet’s expertise since the 19th century, ensure the excellent quality of our aperitifs.
In preparing Lillet, we take particular care over the sourcing of our ingredients. One important objective we have is to select more wines from vineyards that use environmentally friendly practices.
As an aperitif, Lillet is made to bring out the very best in the wines from which it is blended. That is why we are so meticulous about quality when selecting them. Then we blend them with liqueurs created by infusing fruit.
We only choose French wines, most of them made by growers in the region. To strengthen these links and our involvement in the local economy, we have entered into partnerships and vineyard-planting contracts with local producers since 2018. This mutually beneficial initiative provides our partners with long-term income while ensuring our supply of quality wines.
From Lillet’s inception, the fruits and peels that go into it have been carefully chosen for their freshness and aromatic intensity. The sweet oranges come from Turkey, Morocco or Spain, the bitter oranges from Haiti and the cinchona from South America.
The fruits and fruit peels are infused separately by being slowly cold-soaked in alcohol. After several weeks, once the flavour has been extracted, the liquid is run off and the fruits are pressed.
The latter are then recycled – after their use for the infusions, they are collected and taken for composting less than thirty kilometres away.
