Aromatised wine

thumb|Dubonnet poster (1895) thumb|1915 advertisementthumb|Faded Dubonnet advertisement, Lautrec thumb|Dubonnet advertisement, 1907 — Napoleon and [[Madame de Pompadour share a bottle. The caption, idiomatically rendered, runs something akin to this: (Napoleon Bonaparte to Mme. the Marchioness de Pompadour) My dear Marchioness, you must be perished with the cold. Do, pray, alight from your carriage and take a glass of Dubonnet. If, a few thousand bottles my retreat from Russia would have been metamorphosed into a triumphal procession! The scene is set during Fat Tuesday of carnival; hence the

thumb|upright|A bottle of Lillet thumb|Lillet logo Lillet () is a French wine-based aperitif from Podensac, Gironde. Classed as an aromatised wine within EU law, it is a blend of 85% Bordeaux region wines (Semillon for the blanc and for the rosé, Merlot for the rouge) and 15% macerated liqueurs, mostly citrus liqueurs (peels of sweet oranges from Spain and Morocco and peels of bitter green oranges from Haiti). The mix is then stirred in oak vats until blended with French brandy. During the aging process, Lillet is handled as a Bordeaux wine (undergoing fining, racking, filtering, etc.).