Lillet Blanc

Bottle · Blanc / aromatised wine

What it does

Lillet Blanc is the soft pale-wine side of the Suze White Negroni. It rounds off the gentian without weighing the drink down, which is why it anchors the Wayne Collins version and the long white serve with tonic. Let the tonic run too high and Lillet can vanish into a vague pale sweetness.

In the family

Blanc/bianco aromatised wine

The pale wine side. It holds up the white and bianco drinks with a lighter sweetness, a herbal lift, or a bittered-wine backbone. Lillet, Cocchi Americano, and Dolin Blanc share this ground without behaving the same.

If you swap it

What changes if you use one of these instead.

Cocchi Americano
Pale wine
Cocchi Americano sits in the same pale wine area but makes the drink sharper and more bittered than Lillet.

What it opens up

Long Negroni-style serve
Negroni logic stretched with tonic or soda. Colder, longer, a slow sipper.

Mixes using this bottle (1)

Plymouth + Suze + Lillet + tonic
Long Negroni-style serve

Also called

French aperitif wine
Lillet
Lillet white

Bottle details

Brand: Lillet