Each distillation takes place in small copper stills which have the capacity to produce just over 100 bottles. As such, he spent a year during lockdown thinking it through – and found his answer in the pharmaceutical industry. It took the Great War and global bans to finally dislodge people’s love affair with this Great Spirit – wine house politics looking to recover their former market played their part.

It was something of a lonely road at the start, navigated mainly by intuition, with the support of friends and the backing of admirers of an iconic product outlawed by a century of prohibition. Since then, he’s sold more than a million bottles of La Fée, an absinthe supérieure made in France using a pre-ban recipe with all-natural ingredients. La Fée Absinthe Parisienne was first distilled in July 2000 [1] in association with the Musée de l’Absinthe, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and its founder and curator, Marie-Claude Delahaye, who is also a Director of La Fée LLP. La Fée is the only Brand to have the endorsement and direct involvement of the French Absinthe Museum and Marie-Claude Delahaye.October 2009: Swiss Judge in Bern awards IPG to distillers in Val-de-Travers region for geographical protection of Absinthe across Switzerland.

Unfortunately as we all know it is illegal under French Law to produce any form of absinthe at present. Poster depicts absinthe as an alluring woman at the stake, looking across to Switzerland to her sister already residing in the heavens! When the initial edition of this spirit was launched back in 2000, it became the first traditional absinthe to be commercially produced in France since the 1914-15 ban.Directions: Shake all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker and strain into a La Fee absinthe-rinsed cocktail glass.