Benedictine

In 1863, Alexandre Le Grand, a wine merchant from Fécamp, stumbled upon an old recipe while researching his family history. This recipe, he believed, was the lost formula of Dom Bernardo Vincelli's elixir. Intrigued, Le Grand spent years perfecting the recipe, eventually creating the liqueur we know today. He cleverly marketed it as a centuries-old monastic creation, complete with the "D.O.M." label, an abbreviation of "Deo Optimo Maximo" (To God, Most Good, Most Great), a phrase used by Benedictine monks.