Blue curacao liqueur
CoreCuracao / Dutch Caribbean (Senior & Co. / original), Amsterdam / Netherlands (Bols / De Kuyper), France (Marie Brizard)
Tasting Notes
Dried orange peel, bitter orange, Valencia orange sweetness, mild citrus bitterness, sugar sweetness. The flavor is indistinguishable from non-blue curacao or triple sec of similar quality. What you're tasting is orange liqueur. What you're seeing is marketing. And that's fine — the marketing works. Blue curacao built a category on a food coloring decision, and that category moves millions of cases annually.
Brand Guide
DeKuyper Blue Curacao ($10-14, functional, gets the job done)
Bols Blue ($14-18, cleaner orange flavor, reliable color)
Senior Blue Curacao ($22-30, from the actual island of Curacao, Lahara orange)
Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao ($30-38, not blue but the best orange curacao — for when flavor matters more than color). For blue, Bols is the industry standard. For quality orange curacao flavor, look past the blue entirely