this past friday i went to make some purchases for a celebration bbq we were having. it had nothing to do with the impending holiday. anyway while i was picking up all the libations on my list, i saw a colorful new cognac based liqueur called xoteric. the bottle and liqueur had a purple haze sort of color and i am a girl...so i bought it. the back of the bottle gave serving suggestions of course. serve chilled over ice to display the amazing purple color, top off with prosecco, etc. my husband and i love prosecco. it's a wonderful, usually off-dry sparkling wine from Italy, basically italian "champagne". it's economical, easy on the palate and goes well with just about every type of food. so i also grabbed some prosecco.
later that evening my husband opened the purple liqueur and it was green, lime green. so...like a member of the underground, i'm not afraid. we pour it in the prosecco and take a sip. all along we are thinking that either i am crazy, which is always something to be considered or the makers of xoteric have a sense of humor. because this stuff definitely looked purple, has purple packaging and the recipes on the bottle all have the word "purple" in the name.
after a couple of glasses i decided to go the internet and look it up. after much searching i found out that xoteric is supposed to be purple and that the same company does make a lime colored liqueur, i think called "intrigue". i dug my receipt out of the trash and took it back to the store and the store manager and a couple clerks had a good laugh at the liquid inside my bottle. and apparently overnight in the refrigerator it seemed to turn even more green, if that was possible. anyway, all turned out well. i now have xoteric in the icebox, it's a gorgeous shade of purple, we cracked open a new bottle of prosecco last night and it was well worth it.
happy independence day to all and thanks to everyone keeping up with the underground.
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