Ve De Di Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur (70cl, 23%)

A Vietnamese coffee liqueur from Về Để Đi, the Hanoi distillery founded in 2020 by Quan Hung Nguyen and Michael Rosen. It is made from a roughly 7:3 blend of arabica and robusta beans from the Central Highlands, macerated separately in water and in a column-distilled spirit made from Red River rice. The two infusions are blended, lightly filtered, sweetened with sugar from Nghe An and rested for a week in stainless steel before bottling at 23% ABV in a 700ml bottle. On the nose there are earthy robusta, chocolate chip cookie and charred marshmallow. The palate brings dark chocolate, brown sugar, toasted coconut, tonka bean and dried cherry, with a smooth coffee finish.