# Cherry liqueur

A liqueur flavoured with cherries or cherry distillate, ranging from rich and dark to clear and dry in style.

Parent category: [Fruit liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/fruit-liqueur.md)

Alcohol: 25% ABV

## Types

- [Cherry Heering](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cherry-heering.md): 24% ABV. A dark Danish cherry liqueur made with real cherries and botanicals, bringing rich stone fruit, gentle spice, and a softly bitter finish.
- [Luxardo cherry liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/luxardo-cherry-liqueur.md): 30% ABV. A deep red liqueur made from fermented marasca cherry juice and matured in oak vats.
- [Maraschino liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/maraschino-liqueur.md): 32% ABV. A clear cherry liqueur distilled from marasca cherries and their stones, with dry fruit, almond, floral, and lightly funky notes.

## Cocktails

- [Blood and Sand](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/blood-and-sand.md): Equal Scotch, sweet vermouth, cherry liqueur, and fresh orange make a soft, malty, dark-fruited classic whose apparent incompatibility is its enduring lesson.
- [Copenhagen](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/copenhagen.md): Genever, dark cherry liqueur, lime, syrup, and Angostura form Gromit Eduardsen’s bready, jammy 2009 signature cocktail for Copenhagen.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.

## References

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