As anisette (or licorice) liqueurs go, there are two frontrunners: France's Ricard and Spain's Anís del Mono. The Ricard label is more famous--and voluminous--than its Spanish cousin, with an estimated 21 million cases sold annually. Ricard was founded in Marseille in 1932 by the Pernod family (under their original name, La Société Industrielle des Alcools in France, with Pernod SA in Spain) and remains the flagship of the Pernod Ricard brand today.