Cocktail Cabinet No. 51

The Ampersand is one of the most venerable on the cocktail scene, and includes one of the world’s most popular liqueurs – Grand Marnier, a brilliant Cognac and orange-driven delight that seems to end up on more street vendor crepes than in cocktails.

It was invented in 1880 in the Cognac region by one Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle, whose second name his family now uses in their second life as owners of one of Chile’s ...