Kir

Pour the liqueur into the serving glass.

Top up with dry white wine.

The cocktail was invented in Burgundy and is especially popular in France. It is named after the Resistance hero, priest Felix Kir (1876—1968), the post-war mayor of Dijon, where the currant liqueur Cassis de Dijon is produced. Felix Kir, being one of the pioneers of twinning cities, greatly contributed to the popularity of the cocktail, offering it to all visiting Dijon delegations. There is a version that the cocktail in its present form was invented because the stocks of red Burgundy wines in the region were confiscated by the German army during the war