Dubonnet Rouge Aperitif Wine (75cl, 19%)

Dubonnet Rouge is a sweet, gently fortified aperitif wine of 19% abv, in a 75cl bottle. This version is built on Muscat of Alexandria wine, with cinchona bark, black tea, blackcurrant and cane sugar. It is richer and more Port-like than the French original, with a more fruit-forward character. The recipe goes back to 1846, when the Parisian wine merchant and chemist Joseph Dubonnet set out to make quinine palatable. The result is a herbal, quinine-bitter quinquina, and it has long been mixed with gin or used in the Dubonnet Cocktail.