Guignolet

Guignolet (pronounced [ɡiɲɔlɛ]) is a French wild cherry liqueur.

The Cointreau brothers were instrumental in its reinvention, the original recipe having been lost.

The innkeeper responds to Broudier et Bénin: "Je n'ai justement plus de fine, mes bons messieurs; mais j'ai encore du guignolet.

In Fred Varga's thriller An Uncertain Place, two of the characters share a guignolet every night, accompanied by winkles picked out by each with his personal pin, one with a blue head, one with an orange head.

Audric Baillard, a key recurring character in Kate Mosse' Languedoc trilogy of books (Labyrinth,Sepulchre and Citadel) is especially fond of Guignolet.

Guignolet de Dijon