Great choice of beers and wine. My favorite beer shop ever!!

Pete and his colleagues have a really great range of beers, wines , whisky and spirits. What makes them exceptional i...

Great local shop, very friendly staff and delicious drinks. Great selection of non-alcoholic beers as well

I had a great experience at this beer shop. My girlfriend and I came in looking for three beers as a gift for her fat...

Great selection and prices

Great bottle shop with just the nicest person at the shop! Very attentive and helpful. Definitely recommend checking ...

Best bottle shop in Edinburgh, great selection of beers and super helpful staff. My go to for sour beer.

A phenomenal selection of products that is perhaps only surpassed by how phenomenal their staff is - I went in lookin...

Great selection with friendly staff.

Absolutely superb selection and even better service. I was given great recommendations that suited my needs, and the ...

Dear owner my friend and his wife were there on holiday and found me a bottle of Blantons Gold I have been wanting a ...

Finest and greatest depth of beers for sale in Edinburgh. The owner is super knowledgeable and helpful. There was a c...

Can't believe I've failed to give a good review of this place before. I've been frequenting this place fo...

Una selección muy buena de cerveza. Nos atendió un chico muy amable detallandonos muy bien el producto a pesar de ser...

Popped in a few nights ago for some gifts. Great customer experience, they listened to what I was looking for and cam...

Spotted on my drive to my last customer, so glad I spotted it. By far one of the best bottle shops I've had the p...

The Beerhive is simply the best,very friendly knowledgeable staff,always have an extensive range of beers.🍻

Excellent selection, very kind and knowledgeable co-owner! Thank you, I walked out with 8 exceptional bottles of wine!

Great guys, amazing selection and super knowledgeable! The best.

Our local bottle shop!Absolutely top service everytime we go in! Team are always so friendly and knowledgeable.Always...

Always a pleasure to visit, a real asset to the community, we would be lost without Team Beerhive! Helpful, friendly ...

Great little beer and wine place

Huge selection of quality beers and an execllent local delivery service. I ordered on Thursday night and had the beer...

Been buying beer from Peter and Richard for nearly 8 years now. Definitely the best beer shop in town.

Excellent selection across a broad range of price points and styles and thats just the wine. The Beerhive has been ah...

excellent wee shop with great staff and wonderful selection - lots of stuff that isn't beer too, picked up a few ...

Awesome bottle shop. Totally out of my way but I will return many times

Meget godt utvalg i ØL

Great selection and service with a smile! I was really pleased with their delivery options and frequency. I am cancel...

An obviously great passion project bottle shop which I'm embarrassed it took me so long to visit. Great selection...

Great place for exciting craft beers with an excellent wine selection as well. The staff are knowledgeable and friend...

Explore More of Our Collection

1 1

Lillet Blanc

Name: Lillet Blanc
Brand: Lillet
SKU: 3057230006057
Price: 25.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

£25.00

Sale Sold out

Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.

Producer Lillet

Country France

Region Bordeaux

ABV 17%

Tasting Notes

Citrus, Honey, White Flowers and Refreshing Finish

Explore Further

Liqueur Spirits

Product variants

Edinburgh and UK Shipping

✓ Carefully packed by our team in Edinburgh

✓ Free local delivery in Edinburgh and
Falkirk for orders over £35

✓ Free UK delivery over £90

✓ Click & Collect available

✓ Shipping to Northern Ireland and Scottish Isles available on request: orders@thebeerhive.co.uk

View full details

More About Lillet Blanc

Crafted in Podensac, just south of Bordeaux, since 1872, Lillet Blanc is a refined French aperitif made from a blend of Sémillon wine and carefully macerated citrus fruits and herbs. Bottled at 17% ABV, it offers an elegant balance between freshness and gentle sweetness.

Bright and aromatic, it reveals notes of honeyed orange, candied peel, subtle florals and a hint of quinine-led bitterness, with touches of pine and lime adding lift. Smooth and lightly complex, it works beautifully as a lower-alcohol alternative to vermouth in classic cocktails such as the Vesper Martini.

Best served well chilled at 8–10°C, either over ice or lengthened with tonic or soda for a refreshing Lillet Spritz — garnish with cucumber, fresh berries or a twist of citrus to elevate the serve. Crisp, versatile and unmistakably French.

Meet the Producer, Lillet

Lillet

Style: Liqueurs

Lillet occupies that slightly magical drinks category where people assume it’s either impossibly sophisticated or something their grandparents drank before lunch. In reality, it’s both simpler and more useful than that.

Produced in Podensac, just south of Bordeaux, Lillet has been around since the late 1800s, blending regional wines with citrus liqueurs and quinine-based aromatics to create one of France’s classic aperitifs. The Blanc version remains the best known, though Rouge and Rosé have developed proper followings too, especially once bartenders rediscovered cocktails older than Instagram.

The appeal of Lillet is that it manages bitterness, fruit and freshness without overdoing any of them. Lillet Blanc brings orange peel, honey, flowers and gentle herbal bitterness, while Rouge leans softer and darker with red berries and spice underneath. Served cold over ice with a slice of citrus, it suddenly becomes obvious why the French are so committed to aperitif culture. It’s refreshing without tasting simplistic.

Cocktail people love it because it plays well with pretty much everything. Gin, tonic, sparkling wine, vodka, citrus, all covered. The Vesper Martini helped make Lillet internationally famous, though honestly it’s arguably nicer not being shaken aggressively by somebody introducing themselves as “mixologist-in-residence”.

There’s also something reassuringly old-fashioned about the whole thing. Bordeaux wine at its core, proper cellar ageing, recipes that haven’t been reinvented every six months for marketing purposes. Just a quietly elegant aperitif that’s survived because it works.