Instead of a less than stellar dry white wine, you get a sweet and fruity aperitif called a Kir (pronounced keer), and named after Canon Felix Kir, former mayor of the Burgundian town of Dijon.

Start with a kir. Served chilled and made from only two ingredients — crisp, dry white wine and crème de cassis, a black currant liqueur — a kir mixes itself directly in the glass.

the Kir, made with white wine, and the Kir Royal, made with champagne. 2. The first kir ever created was made with: The local wine of Dijon, white Burgundy + Lejay Cassis. The centuries-old recipe ...

In Drinking French, David Lebowitz calls the Kir cocktail a gateway drink for many aperitif enthusiasts. "The clever combination of brisk white wine and black currant liqueur is named after Félix ...

The drink’s sibling, Kir, mixes blackcurrant liqueur with an inexpensive white wine made from Burgundy’s aligoté grape. Perhaps it’s the lack of the effervescence, but Kir’s still ...

You can create a kir royale variation by using white wine instead of sparkling wine for a different profile, or take ...

"I think that’s how it started. They would make themselves grapefruit rosé the same way that we would make a white wine-cassis, a kir, in the North." The good news is, if you’re unable to ...

The Kir Royale is fascinating, in a way. In most ways, really. It’s got a great story with a long history. It has cultural relevance. The taste is great and complex, perfect for any time ...