Latest news with #liqueur
Times
23-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Countess of Yarmouth: Our disinheritance is a tragedy
Every morning this week, the Earl of Yarmouth, William Seymour, has risen from his bed in the early hours, pulled on his clothes and gone to work on his family farm. To his wife, the work ethic that drives the routine picking elder blossoms for their liqueur business stands in stark contrast to assumptions that have come to be made about her husband. Because in addition to being a businessman, the earl is the scion of one of Britain's grandest aristocratic families, whose £85 million ancestral estate centres on the 345-year-old Ragley Hall. 'There's this talk of entitlement and that William is a lazy, entitled toff,' the Countess of Yarmouth, Kelsey Seymour, said. 'Well, I can tell you he's getting up at four o'clock in
The Guardian
16-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- The Guardian
Cocktail of the week: The Seafood Restaurant's teal & orange – recipe
We've all got the odd dusty bottle of liqueur hidden away at the back of the cupboard, so let's give them a better home in super-tasty and easy highballs, which are having a bit of a moment right now. The bright flavours and rich, silky texture of single malt make it the perfect canvas to build upon and help make the most of these forgotten half-empty bottles. 40ml single malt scotch whisky – we use Nc'nean15ml blue curaçao – we use Briottet; alternatively, use Cointreau or any other orange liqueur you have knocking about, though of course then the finished drink won't be blue15ml fresh lemon juice 100ml soda water 1 orange wedge, to garnish Measure all the liquids into a highball glass filled with ice, stir and garnish with the orange slice. Norbert Drozdowski, bartender, The Seafood Restaurant, Padstow, Cornwall
CBC
11-03-2025
- Business
- CBC
Quebec liqueur company caught in crossfire of U.S. alcohol ban
A liqueur company says it's been bottled up with its American counterparts and pulled from SAQ store shelves — despite being based in Laval, Que. The founder of LS Cream Liqueur, Stevens Charles, says he started receiving concerned text messages from customers unable to find the Haitian-style drink after U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs came into effect last week. "The way that it looks right now, it looks like LS Cream is part of the problem," he told CBC's Daybreak. Though headquartered in Laval, Charles says the company bottles its product in the U.S., a decision it made after it struggled to enter the Quebec market via the call for tender process when it was starting out around 2014. After a year in business, Charles says the province's liquor board, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), began placing orders for his product. "We've been a fairly good success for all those years because as you know, if you don't perform, they never reorder again. And we've been selling out all our orders ever since," he said. The cream liqueur is inspired by the Haitian celebratory drink crémas, which is infused with nutmeg, cinnamon, star anise, among other ingredients reminiscent of the holidays. The SAQ, for its part, says it considers LS Cream Liqueur to be a U.S. product, reiterating the statement it issued when the Quebec government asked it to pull American alcohol from its shelves. The removal "includes wines, spirits, locally bottled American products, and beers in transit intended for brewers," according to the statement. LS Cream is produced in Buffalo, N.Y., bottled in Florida, then shipped to a depot in New Jersey where the SAQ typically picks it up for import to Canada. Charles says he's reached out to the board about his unique situation but says he hasn't heard back, adding that he hopes a compromise can be reached. He says that he understands the ban but hopes the board can see that his is not the "embodiment of a U.S.-based company." Last year, the board featured an interview with Charles and his co-founder Myriam Jean-Baptiste on its site highlighting them for Black History Month. "We're Haitian-Canadians that bottle [an] ancestral recipe from Haiti. That's the story. We're not a chameleon, we're not trying to be Canadian here, U.S. there." Charles, who lives with his family in Laval, says he's looking into possibly adding operations in Canada, but says it's complicated.
