It's rouge but it's not red. The idea behind Citadelle Rouge was to create something bursting with natural red fruit flavours but without colour or sweetness. It involves steeping fruits such as fresh cranberry, raspberry, blackberry, blackcurrant, and rhubarb plus more usually gin botanicals including juniper, coriander, orange peel, cardamom, and cinnamon in alcohol before distillation. The result is something so fruity you'd swear it was red, but it isn't. This would be perfect in a Bramble cocktail.
Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
You can really taste the red fruit with flavours ranging from fresh raspberry to jam and sweetshop flavours mingling harmoniously with juniper, citrus and spices.