Apricot Brandy (700 ml)

Wenneker has operated out of Amsterdam since 1693, making it one of the oldest continuously running distilleries in the Netherlands — a lineage that predates most of the French liqueur houses it now sits alongside on back bars worldwide. The brand built its reputation on fruit liqueurs crafted for bartenders, prioritising consistent colour and flavour intensity over aged complexity. Wenneker Apricot Brandy is produced on a neutral grain spirit base, with apricot flavouring and sweetening agents blended to a commercially calibrated sweetness level suited to cocktail application. Despite the word "brandy" in the name — a common historical convention in the liqueur category — this expression contains no distilled fruit brandy; it is classified as a fruit liqueur under EU spirits regulations. That distinction matters: the profile skews toward candied apricot and syrup rather than the drier, fermented-stone-fruit character of an eau-de-vie-based product. At its price point and ABV, it functions as a straightforward mixing liqueur, delivering reliable apricot colour and sweetness in sours, spritzes, and tropical builds.