GRAND HERITAGE

The Grand Marnier origins began almost two centuries ago, when Jean Baptiste Lapostolle built a high quality fruit liqueurs distillery in Neauphle-le-Château, a small city outside of Paris. Quickly his original distillery gained an outstanding reputation. Julia, granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Lapostolle, married Louis-Alexandre Marnier. The Marnier family were wine merchants who distributed Lapostolle’s products. With the union of Julia and Louis-Alexandre, whose love story unfolded only fifteen miles to the east of Paris, La Maison Marnier Lapostolle was born. When Louis-Alexandre created his recipe, he named it Curaçao Marnier. César Ritz, his loyal friend and legendary founder of the Ritz Hotel, suggested a new name. At the time, the fashion in Paris was for everything to be “petit”. So he came up with the name “Grand Marnier”: “A grand name for a grand liqueur!”