Lise Baccara Troussépinète

History

The Troussépinète has its origin in the Vendée, a coastal region North of Cognac. It is believed that it was made clandestinely by the unofficial distillers of the Vendée who were not granted the right to distill by the French authorities.

Since ancient times, we know that wines of mediocre quality were mostly consumed flavored. The upper classes were able to flavor their wines with expensive imported spices and plants such as cinnamon, ginger, cloves or rose petals. The people with less means had to use their imagination and find other local ingredients. 

In the Vendée, a lot of farmers had small vineyards, but the wines produced were only ordinary in quality. However, there were a lot of blackthorn bushes and the winegrowers and distillers started to use it to make troussépinète wines. The French word for “blackthorn bush” is “épinète,” which we find in the name troussépinète.