Like many people I buy products for the Christmas period that I would not normally buy during the rest of the year. I also like to make special food and try out new recipes. I always make a traditional sherry trifle but this year thought I would try something different. I found a wonderful recipe in my Nigella Lawson Feast cookery book for a chocolate trifle using cherry brandy. Cherry Brandy is not a drink I usually buy so I had no idea which brand to choose. In the end I bought a bottle of De Kuyper cherry brandy form my local Tesco as this was the lowest priced cherry brandy available. A potted history. *************** The De Kuyper royal ...  Read the complete review

I first discovered cherry brandy in my first year of university. I originally tried it purely because a cherry brandy and coke was a reasonably priced drink in my student union! But I fell in love with it after my first sip and savoured the lovely cherry flavour. Since leaving uni I regularly buy cherry brandy for parties and gatherings and have since introduced it to friends who have also fallen for its charms. Even my best friend who doesn't normally like cherry flavoured things likes it! De Kuyper Cherry Flavour brandy is available in larger supermarkets but not so easy to find in smaller shops or off licenses. I get mine in Tesco where it costs £9.99 for ...  Read the complete review

==De Kuyper Cherry Brandy Liqueur== At Christmas I was making some cherry chocolate truffles which needed to have some cherry brandy in the ingredients. This was not something that I had lying around so my first port of call was into our local Morrison's to see if they had any. After 10 minutes of searching the shelves but coming up with nothing I decided to ask a spotty looking store worker to see if he knew whether the store stocked an item and surprisingly enough he knew exactly where it was! The bottle which the brandy is in is not instantly recognisable as a cherry brandy and because the bottle is small it wasn't easy to pick out of all the ...  Read the complete review

Starting back in 1695, DeKuyper Royal Distilleries, is a dutch firm, exporting in 1911 once the business had expanded. It gained the Royal title in 1995 from the Queen Beatrice of Netherlands to celebrate its 300th Anniversary. DeKupyer as well as producing 25 liqueurs and 7 flavoured brandies , including trip sec and various schnapps, and took over the Warnik company that produces advocaat. It also produces ready to drink shots like "sex on the beach" and "kamikaze". Brandy is a word derived from the dutch brandewijn, which means burnt wine and is a spirit made from distilled wine, generally containing 35-60% alcohol and is ...  Read the complete review

De Kuyper Cherry Brandy is 24% alcohol and can currently be purchased from Amazon for £13.50 for a 70cl bottle. It is presented in a dark brown bottle that had a long neck and has a red and gold label. The cherry brandy is exported from Holland and is a liqueur made from cherries and warming spices. It has a strong cherry scent and is sweet to taste with deep flavours of red cherries, cinnamon and it is blended with brandy to give it that strength of alcoholic taste. It has a smooth finish and also I detect hints of marzipan, the flavour does not linger too long but the scent remains whilst you are drinking it. I tend to drink it mixed with champagne, to ...  Read the complete review