An extremely limited production of one of the first known
written absinthe recipes discovered, written down for posterity in 1797 and
attributed to Abram-Louis Perrenoud, Henri-Louis Pernod's father. Translated
from old French and put into production by two absinthe historians using anicient
measurements and colouring techniques, along with only local Pontarlier absinthe
plants, it shows another side to absinthe that had been modified so many times
during the 19th century.
It is more herbaceous and slightly medicinal, as it
was most likely originally intended, yet quite tasty, and it has a louche
that is more of a light, opaque olive green instead of milky white. This
may have been what absinthe was like before the Pernod son went main-stream
and is certainly an interesting historical experiment.