Cocktails with Crème de Pêche de Vigne liqueur
Peach crème liqueur is a sweet, low-strength peach liqueur, made by macerating peaches in neutral spirit and heavily sweetening them. The prized versions use pêche de vigne — small, dark "vineyard peaches" grown among the vines.
ABV15%
Substitutes for Crème de Pêche de Vigne liqueur
Heavy sweetening is the style, and everything nearby is drier and thinner. Sugar goes back with syrup; the density does not go back at all.
On the label
- “crème de”
- Nothing to do with cream. EU rules set a minimum of 250 grams of sugar per liter for anything sold as crème de, and it is that sugar, not dairy, that gives the syrupy weight.
Often confused with
Real steeped fruit but less sugar, so it pours drier. The drink keeps its peach and loses some weight: put a barspoon of syrup back and leave it there.
Flavoring and sugar on a neutral base, with no steeped fruit. It is candied and thinner: the drink loses the crème style’s weight, and you have to build it back with syrup.
