La Fée Parisienne Absinthe, 1 x 70cl

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La Fée brand is French for Fairy, ‘La’ indicating feminine, which you may notice her within the La Fée eye. Absinthe historically is referenced as female and was sometimes depicted as a fairy, spirit or wrath…

Other books have followed which have gradually unveiled the significance of absinthe in 19th Century society and more importantly its influence on art. At the same time, Marie-Claude searched antique shops and markets to establish an impressive collection of Absinthe memorabilia, etchings, drawings and paintings…The nose neat is a powerful smooth spirit with a noticeable herbal Artemisia profile with soft tones of anis, fennel and spicy coriander showing… … after dilution the louche effect has turned the absinthe supérieure to a milky, opalescent green/yellow and opens up the aroma and taste, as the essential oils trapped in the distillations are released, filling the air and your senses. The article was read by Johnny Depp, coincidentally filming Sleepy Hollow in Hertfordshire, just up the road from George’s home. The star’s fixer called George saying that Mr Depp was shortly departing by private jet to spend the weekend with Hunter S Thompson and absolutely had to take a bottle of absinth bottle with him. Fearing the effect these ‘absinthes’ could have on his brand, George sought the high ground. The product he had been selling was a Bohemian absinth [without an ‘e’] but in 1999 he embarked on a campaign to source a genuine pre-ban absinthe and restart production in France or Switzerland. John Moore is a musician and writer who’s many talents include coaxing ethereal sounds from the musical saw and writing blogs for newspapers. In his article for The Idler he describes stumbling across absinth whilst on tour with his band in Prague, and finding himself drawn to its romance and hedonistic appeal. The first to be made and shipped into Europe since the bans in the early 1900s, this was absinth [without the ‘e’], made to the Czech style without the heavy anise found in traditional absinthes. It is important to distinguish these two very different styles – both of which are now available under the La Fée brand. Sugar & Burn ritual

La Fée Parisienne is distilled by a Paris-based distiller using copper stills in the classic way with its flavour centred around grand wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and balanced with petti wormwood, green and star anis. These serve to subdue the weight and extreme bitterness of the wormwood and this balance of flavours is typical of a traditional pre ban French Absinthe, as is its 68% abv. Other herbs are used to delicately rain in the dominant wormwood including hyssop and in La Fée’s case an expensive herb found high-up in the Swiss Alps which Madame Delayahe insisted upon and I am told is often missed by many lesser products. Its identity remains under wraps. Once experienced, the local Czech product is the first step to a true appreciation of the finer points of real lager or beer. Unfortunately, consumers in Britain have become so accustomed to the sterility and blandness of lager that is treated to achieve a twelve-month shelf-life, they are often unaware of what they are missing. Marketing hyperbole maintains the illusion by extolling the virtues of “crisp” and “clean” beer, while the original, full-bodied character of the beer is lost in translation. Fortunately, there would be no such difficulty with absinthe, being a spirit with such a high volume of alcohol that it makes pasteurisation irrelevant.Jeremy Paxman of BBC2’s Newsnight as he reviewed the next day’s papers at the end of the programme. The following morning George received a call from the BBC asking if he could demonstrate the absinth-burning ritual for Newsnight that evening. A date was set for a launch party at London’s Groucho Club. Tom and Gavin worked the media, setting up exclusives with the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard. I (Simon Difford) helped George spread word to the industry and introduced him to John Coe, whose company became the first distributor of absinthe in the UK since the pre-war ban. Each distillation of La Fée Parisienne Absinthe Supérieure is personally quality taste tested by Delahaye and Rowley La Fée is distilled using three artemisia plants at its heart: Grand (Artemisia absinthium) & Petit Absinthe (Artemisia pontica) and Genepi (Genepi Artemisia), Green and Star Anise, Fennel, Hyssop, Coriander, Mint, Melisse and more.