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| Mathilde Liqueur - Orange XO Liqueur |
Ahh, orange liqueur, you are a wonderful thing. We could not make our Cosmopolitans and Margaritas without you. And yet, your quintessential iteration - Cointreau orange liqueur - is so very, very expensive. What to do ? We all wish to drink tasty cocktails and when they call for a top-shelf orange liqueur, you can't just use any cheap triple sec - to do so ruins the drink. Good spirits need to be kept in the company of other good spirits and quality ingredients.
Enter Mathilde XO Orange Liqueur.
Me and the lady found this delicious spirit while searching for a Cointreau substitute. Basically, as you know if you've been reading the blog, we enjoy margaritas among many mixed drinks. But goodness, Cointreau is so very expensive! Around here it costs around $21 for the small 375ml product and bit under $40 for the full 750ml size. Now, Cointreau is a delicious, premium liqueur to be sure, probably the best one of its' type. But if you're making margaritas for a party, or even just for yourself, you'll find that you go through the stuff like water!
Another consideration was that Cointreau was costing us more than the main spirit (Tequila) that we were mixing it with, and that didn't seem quite fair. We set out on a quest to find a good, reasonable tasting Cointreau substitute.
Now, there's many brands of cheap triple sec - you see them over by the schnapps. These are all well in good I suppose for college students or kids or people trying to make cheap drinks, but really, what are you paying for? Corn syrup and chunk of D-limonene flavoring? The price of these things is cheap, but the level of value you get is low.
