Founder: Joseph Dubonnet
Year Founded: 1846
Distillery Location: Bardstown, Kentucky
Master Distiller / Blender: Agroindustrias Casa Ramirez, S.A. de C.V.
How you should drink it
- With ice
- With club soda
- With champagne
- In cocktails (Dubious Manhattan, Fat Like Buddha Cocktail, Deshler, Dubonnet and Champagne, Le Sang et Sable, Kiss, Dubonnet Cosmopolitan, Riviera, Princess Mary’s Pride, Dubonnet Cocktail)
Fast Facts
- Dubonnet was created by chemist and wine merchant Joseph Dubonnet to make quinine more palatable for soldiers in the French Foreign Legion stationed in North Africa.
- The brand commissioned famous artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to design a series of advertising posters in the late 1800s.
Types of Dubonnet Available
- Dubonnet Rouge
- Dubonnet Blanc
What is the flavor profile of Dubonnet Rouge? Sweet? Bitter? More like whiskey than wine?
Dubonnet Rouge is very similar to a sweet vermouth, though it contains quinine and a slightly different assortment of herbs and other botanicals. It doesn’t taste anything like whiskey, although it pairs well with the spirit in cocktails!
To me, (who JUST re-discovered this after a 40-year hiatus), it is in the same flavor category as Port.