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70 cl 74% abv (148 proof) LDF presented distiller Hugues de
Miscault with the challenge of working with an absinthe recipe directly from
the pages of a 19th century French liquoriste manual. Blanche de Fougerolles
is made with a grape-alcohol base, and combines grande and petite wormwood,
green anise, hyssop, veronica, camomile, génepi, fennel, coriander and angelica;
all plants are individually distilled into full 80%+ alcoholates, which are
then blended. The alcoholic strength is then reduced as historically specified
to 74%, giving this absinthe real backbone, but by no means overpowers the
finesse and lingering aromas of this complex combination of aromatic plants
specified by this highly regarded and well documented recipe. This absinthe
is often compared to, and surpasses in quality, many uncoloured Swiss la Bleues
now made today. |
