Alcoholic DrinksIn this section you will find adverts for various alcoholic drinks. Most are drinks of French origin. There are arranged in no particular order so please scroll down to see the full selection.
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Boissons AlcooliséesDans cette section, vous trouverez des publicités pour des boissons alcoolisées. La plupart sont des boissons d'origine française. Elles sont disposées dans aucun ordre particulier donc s'il vous plaît faites défiler vers le bas pour voir la sélection complète.
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Byrrh
ByrrhByrrh is a wine base apéritif made blend of red wine, mistelle and quinine. Byrrh was created in 1866. It was popular as a French apéritif. With its marketing and reputation as a "hygienic drink," Byrrh sold well in the early 20th century. It was even exported, despite a name complicating sales as the word "byrrh" evokes ideas of similarities to "beer" for English- and German-language speakers.
Brothers Pallade and Simon Violet, itinerant drapers, decided to take advantage of the wine fever in the region to develop an aperitif wine flavoured with cinchona. They mixed dry wines and mistelles. The resulting product was initially marketed as a health drink or tonic. This was because the local aperitif producers were not happy at competition to their established brands. The brothers re-branded the drink as a health drink to get round this problem, and it was sold in pharmacies. The Second World War initiated the decline of Byrrh. Aided by tax benefits, natural sweet wines such as Banyuls, Muscat de Frontignan and Rivesaltes superseded Byrrh, which went out of fashion. In 1977 the family business, divided by strife, was acquired by Pernod-Ricard who still makes the drink at its facility in Thuir near Perpignan. |
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Cointreau
St. Raphael Quinquina
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St. Raphael -QuinquinaSaint Raphael is an aperitif based on a mixture of mistelle (wine liqueur) and herbs. Nowadays two varieties exist, the Red Saint-Raphaël and Saint-Raphaël Amber-Gold.
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Sandeman
SandemanIn 1790, a century after the establishment of Warre’s British Port House, The House of Sandeman was founded by George Sandeman. With a loan of £300 from his father, George Sandeman started dealing with Portuguese and Spanish wines. By 1795, he had established an agency in Cadiz (Spain), dealing with sherry wine, and in 1811 he purchased cellars in Gaia (Portugal), dealing with Porto wine.
In 1877 the Sandeman brand was registered as a trademark. They were the first company to brand their casks thus giving the wine a name that assured quality. At the end of the nineteenth century “brand” names were quite unheard of, but Sandeman wanted to give their customers a guarantee of quality. So, in 1880, they became the first Porto House to export bottled and labelled wines. By 1914, the brand had a network of agents who were selling Sandeman wines worldwide. Sandeman’s famous trademark “the Don” was painted by George Massiot Brown in 1928. The mysterious Don, in his black cape, wide-brimmed black hat and glass of port in hand was based on the Portuguese student’s black cape and a Spanish Caballero hat. This trademark has won much acclaim and recognition internationally for the Sandeman brand. Links |
Dubonnet
DubonnetDubonnet is a sweet, wine-based aperitif. It is a blend of fortified wine, herbs, and spices (including a small amount of quinine), with fermentation being stopped by the addition of alcohol.
Dubonnet was first sold in 1846 by Joseph Dubonnet, in response to a competition run by the French Government to find a way of persuading French Foreign Legionnaires in North Africa to drink quinine. The brand-name Dubonnet was taken over by Pernod Ricard in 1976. It was re-popularised in late 1970s by an advertising campaign starring Pia Zadora. It is available in Rouge, Blanc and Gold (vanilla and orange) varieties. Dubonnet is also widely known by the advertisement slogan of the French graphic designer Cassandre "Dubo, Dubon, Dubonnet", which still can be found on walls of houses in France. Dubonnet is commonly mixed with lemonade or bitter lemon, and forms part of many cocktails. Links |
Rhum St. James
Rhum St JamesFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4757) 5 May 1934
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Rhum St. JamesSt. James Distillery is a rum distillery located Martinique.
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Cherry Rocher
Cherry RocherCherry Rocher is a distillery founded in 1705 in La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) by Bartholomew Rock. It is renowned for its eaux-de-vie and fruit liqueurs.
The Company Cherry Rocher that we know today is the result of several mergers of different distilleries in the region. Initially, in 1705 the distillery was Rock in Côte-Saint-André. A few years later there emerged almost simultaneously distilleries in Neyret and Arnaud that merged in 1830 to give the distillery Neyret-Arnaud. Susequently it also encompassed the distillery Chavin and gave birth the distillery Neyret-Chavin Ruy which then merged with the distillery Cherry Rocher de la Côte-Saint-André. Links |
Cherry Rocher - 1926
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4329) 20 February 1926
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Cherry Rocher - 1931
From L'Illustration (Issue No 4623) 10 October 1931
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Cherry Rocher - 1933From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4735) 2 December 1933
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Cherry Rocher - 1938
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4969) 28 May 1938
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Cherry Rocher - Grande Liqueur
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 5071) 11 May 1940
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Hennessy
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HennessyJas Hennessy & Co., or more simply Hennessy, is a world-leading cognac house with headquarters in Cognac, France. Today, the company of Jas Hennessy & Co. sells about 50 million bottles a year worldwide, or more than 40 percent of the world’s Cognac, making it the world's largest Cognac producer.
The Hennessy cognac distillery was founded by Irishman Richard Hennessy in 1765. During the 1970s, Kilian Hennessy, a fifth generation direct descendent of Hennessy, became the CEO of Hennessy. Kilian Hennessy spearheaded the company's 1971 merger with Moët et Chandon, which created Moët Hennessy. Moët Hennessy became part of Louis Vuitton in 1987, creating one of the world's largest luxury brand conglomerates, Moët-Hennessy • Louis Vuitton or LVMH. Kilian Hennessy remained on the company's advisory board until his death in 2010 at the age of 103. Links |
Suze
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SuzeSuze is a French brand of bitters flavoured with the roots of the plant gentian, normally drunk as an apéritif.
Suze was invented in Paris by Fernand Moureaux in 1885, but was not put on the market until 1889. It is still in production, now under the ownership of the Pernod group, although it is not widely known outside France. In 1912, the artist Pablo Picasso depicted a bottle of Suze in his collage "Verre et bouteille de Suze". Links |
Bénédictine
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BénédictineBénédictine is a herbal liqueur beverage developed by Alexandre Le Grand in the 19th century and produced in France.
It is claimed that at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy, monks had developed a medicinal aromatic herbal beverage which was produced until the abbey's devastation during the French Revolution, but in fact Alexandre Le Grand invented the recipe himself, helped by a local chemist, and he told this story to connect the liqueur with the city history to increase sales. He began production under the trade name "Bénédictine", using a bottle with an easily recognizable shape and label. The family eventually sold the company to Martini and Rossi, which was in turn bought by Bacardi. The recipe is a closely guarded trade secret, ostensibly known to only three people at any given time. So many people have tried to reproduce it that the company maintains on its grounds in Fécamp a "Hall of Counterfeits" (Salle des Contrefaçons) The bottle and label have been imitated, as has the name Bénédictine. The company prosecuted those it felt to be infringing on its intellectual property. It lost in litigation against the Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey in Spain, after it was demonstrated that the monks there had been making their liqueur for a longer time. The manufacturing process involves several distillations which are then blended. Links |
Cognac Bisquit
Cognac BisquitFounded by Alexandre Bisquit in 1819, the house of Bisquit, with its home at the Château de Lignères by the banks of the Charente River, had a long-standing family tradition until the house was sold to Pernod Ricard in 1966. Said to have been among the favorite cognacs of Winston Churchill and King George IV, it is popular in the Anglo-Saxon countries and hence was bought by the South African group Distell in 2009.
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Porto |
Cristal-Vouvray |
Le Porto - Vin De L'Elite 2From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4782) 27 October 1934
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PortoFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4812) 25 May 1935
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Porto - Une Des Joies De La Vie
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4969) 28 May 1938
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Le Porto - Vin De L'EliteFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4999) 24 December 1938
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Cristal-VouvrayFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4715) 15 July 1933
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Le Grand Armagnac |
Marsala Florio |
Anis Gras |
Campari
CampariCampari is an alcoholic apéritif obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in alcohol and water. It is a bitters characterized by its dark red color.
Campari is often used in cocktails and is commonly served with soda water, wine, or citrus juice. It is produced by the Campari Group, a multi-national company based in Italy. Links |
Vieille Cure
Cinzano |
Pikina |
Bonal
BonalBonal Gentiane-Quina, once nicknamed "ouvre l'appetit" (the key to the appetite), is an aperitif wine that has been in production since 1865. It is made by infusing gentian root, herbs from the Grande Chartreuse mountains, and cinchona (quinine), in a Mistelle base, producing a wine that is known for its complexity. It is traditionally enjoyed neat, on ice with a twist, or in many classic mixed drinks.
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Marie Brizard
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Marie BrizardMarie Brizard, officially Marie Brizard & Roger International 3 is a French company producing and marketing beverages. It is particularly known for its branded spirits of Marie Brizard. It was founded in 1755.
It produces both liqueurs and spirits but also soft drinks. It has plants in France and Spain. Links |
Péres Chartreux |
Le Mandarin |
Pasquier-Desvignes |
Bourgogne Geisweiler
Bourgogne Geisweiler - AuthenticitéFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4427) 7 January 1928
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Bourgogne Geisweiler - 1938
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4969) 28 May 1938
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Bourgogne Geisweiler - 1938 (2)
From: L'Illustration (Issue No 4963) 16 April 1938
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Maison Geisweiler & Fils
From: France Illustration (Issue No 116) 20 December 1947
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Bourgogne Geisweiller - 1948From: France Illustration (Issue: Le Salon De L'Automobile) October 1948
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Cusenier Cognac
CusenierCusenier is a French brand of spirits, which was founded at Ornans (Doubs) by Eugene Cusenier under the name E. Cusenier, eldest son and Co. It is now part of Pernod Ricard.
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Martell |
Lejay-Lagoute |
Chateau Pontet Canet
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Laurent Monopole
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Dolfi |
La Grande Chartreuse
Cognac Camus
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Cognac CamusCamus Cognac is a brand of cognac that has been produced by five generations of the Camus family, since 1863 when Jean-Baptiste Camus organized a group of producers to sell a high quality cognac under the brand 'La Grande Marque'.
Today, the fifth generation of the Camus family, led by Cyril Camus, based in Cognac, France, runs the Camus brand which is sold in most countries of the world, including in airports and on air flights. Links |
Cognac Briand
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Cognac - Chateau Paulet |
Cognac Godet |
Cognac Rouyer |
Cognac Croizet
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Morin, Père Et Fils
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Champagne Henriot |
Bourgogne Chauvenet |
Cognac Larsen
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Bourgogne Antonin Rodet
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Antonin RodetThe House was founded by Antoine RODET in 1875, then passed down to his son, Antonin who managed the business until his death in 1939. The Marquis de JOUENNES, son-in-law of Antonin RODET, took over direction until 1978, at which time he passed the torch to his own son-in-law, who managed the House until October 2003.
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Courvoisier |
Prince Hubert de Polignac - Cognac
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Le Vin Mignon |
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Porto - Antonat |
Clacquesin |
Other Drinks Related Adverts
NicolasNicolas is a French wine retailer, which also has stores in other countries.
It was established in Paris in 1822 and has operated in London since 1989. The first Nicolas stores were opened in Paris and the chain has since grown to include over 400 branches throughout France, with a number of branches in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Poland. In 1988, Nicolas was bought by Groupe Castel. Nicolas has 530 stores in total, located in major town and cities throughout France and abroad, notably Great Britain: there are 44 branches in London alone. Nicolas carry over 1,200 wines, champagnes and other alcoholic beverages. Links |
KressmannFrom: L'Illustration (Issue No 4985) 17 September 1938
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KressmannKressmann was founded in Bordeaux in 1871 by Edouard Kressmann, who created the wine trading company Ed. Kressmann & Cie.
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