Kir in the community

Delving into the history of a classic mixture of white wine and crème de cassis.

Kir was big in 1980s Britain but then it just seemed to disappear overnight. People stopped offering it at the fashionable South Bucks drinks parties I was dragged along to as a child. My parents still have some ancient bottles of crème de cassis in the garage gathering dust. I have a theory as to why it went out of fashion: wine got tastier. The kind o…