Cartron Banana Liqueur (70cl, 25%)

A French creme-style banana liqueur from Nuits-Saint-Georges, Burgundy, made by Joseph Cartron. Ecuadorian bananas are mashed into pulp and macerated in neutral sugar-beet distillate for roughly ten weeks in stainless steel, then filtered and sweetened with crystallized sugar-beet sugar. It is bottled at 25% ABV in a 700ml bottle. The liqueur is unaged and built around real fruit rather than artificial flavouring. Ten weeks of maceration draws out ripe banana character while keeping the liqueur bright and precise. Deep ripe banana on the nose, with banana bread and a whisper of vanilla, leads to a lush, creamy-sweet palate and a clean, fruit-driven finish.