La Fée Parisienne Absinthe, 1 x 70cl

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The base alcohol is distilled from sugar beet, a plant commonly grown in France, Switzerland and throughout the northern hemisphere. The root is distilled to make a neutral spirit (at approximately 96%): La Fée Blanche and Parisienne are both distilled with beet neutral alcohol, other base spirits included grape alcohol (as used in our La Fée X•S range) and grain (as used in our NV (ENVY) and Bohemian range) all being examples of neutral spirit used for the production of the French & Swiss absinthe during its heyday. Suited and booted, with Radomir (my local assistant and translator) I approached what we considered, after much tasting and travelling throughout the country, to be the best of the independent brands and breweries. We had something revolutionary to offer these local enterprises across the Czech Republic: access to the UK, one of Europe’s key markets. Within six months we had signed up three good breweries, producing such beers as Lobkowicz, Rebel and our first spirit, the Czech national liqueur, (Becherovka, now, coincidentally, owned by Pernod Ricard.) 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. Poster depicts absinthe as an alluring woman at the stake, looking across to Switzerland to her sister already residing in the heavens! The joy of Czech Beer is its fullness of flavour, combined with the fact that Bohemia is not only the heartland, but in my view the birthplace of true lager-brewing. In Prague we would sit in cool Bohemian bars wondering what it was that made the beer taste so good and why the same beer (if it could be found at all in the UK) seemed to be a shadow of its former self. Was it’s original character somehow lost in the transportation process? Or was the magical Bohemian atmosphere of Prague going to our heads?

La Fée captures the aroma and taste that great writers and artists such as Rimbaud, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh enjoyed at the end of the 19th century" George met with the three early in 1998 and it was agreed that they would handle public relations and assist with marketing, while George would take on the challenge of setting a legal precedent for the sale absinthe in the UK. So Green Bohemia Limited, an amalgamation of the previous two company names, Bohemia Beer House and Green Bohemia, was born. But absinthe was illegalAbsinthe was all the rage across turn-of-the-century Europe until governments started to ban its sale with the French ban of 1915 effectively eradicating the spirit from most of the world’s bars. Prior to George’s involvement in absinthe, few had much interest in seeing its return, and those that did simply didn’t spend as much time scrutinising the terms of each nation’s ban for loopholes. Had they done so, they’d have found that the 1915 French ban only applied to the sale, rather than the production of absinthe, leaving the way open for a French distillery to produce it, quite legitimately, for export. George became the first to exploit this loophole (as you’ll read later).

I set up my first company, Bohemia Beer House Ltd. (now trading as BBH Spirits Ltd.) with the aim of evaluating and exporting Czech beer. The intention, satisfyingly simple, was to allow me to continue to enjoy living in Prague, home of our first office, under the management of Radomir Horacek, whilst letting me come home to England; my intended market. You may well ask what has this to do with absinthe-drinking today, but bear with me: The learning curve provided by this period of self-education in the industry was the foundation of my role in returning absinthe commercially to Europe. During the launch party I remember speaking to George, convinced he was onto a smash hit, only to find he had no distribution in place. Next morning with my first absinth-induced hangover I rung John Coe of Coe Vintners who ended up taking the bulk of the first shipment and becoming the first UK distributor. Meanwhile, a lone case of twelve bottles sent via DHL arrived at George’s home with four of the bottles broken in transit. The limo driver was diverted and Johnny Depp became Green Bohemia’s first customer. This left just seven bottles for the launch of Hill’s Absinth that evening at London’s Groucho Club. Established in 1705, the Cherry Rocher distillery is located in La Côte-Saint-André ( Isère), in the Rhone-Alpes region of south-east France. Known for producing fine fruit liqueurs, the company continue to work primarily with fruit and herb based spirits and liqueurs. Since 2007, Cherry Rocher has distilled La Fée Absinthe Parisienne, and since 2011 La Fée Absinthe Blanche for the La Fée brand. All-natural ingredients (colour clear), distilled in France. Central ingredient being Grand Absinthe (Artemisia absinthium) and having a classic strength of 53%abv.

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April 1998 Rowley applied EU directive for spirits crafting the legal status absinthe uses to this day.

Grande Absinthe (Wormwood), Genepi (Alpine Wormwood), Star Anise, Fennel, Coriander, Green Anise, Southern, Wormwood, Hyssop George also discovered that both France and Italy completely forgot, or didn’t bother, to make provision for their absinthe bans when signing up to the Treaty of Maastricht. Under EU rules, if a product can be legally sold in one EU member state, it may, in theory, be sold in all of them. University, they carried out 1st commercial tests for him since 1915 ban, proving absinthe with thujone, was within EU limits to imbibe, enabling absinthe return at The Groucho Club, Soho, London, November 1998. La Fée distil a range of six different absinthes: Parisienne, a traditional French style Verte (coloured/green) absinthe; Blanche, a traditional Blanche (white/clear) style; Bohemian, a modern, Czech style absinthe; La Fée X•S Suisse and La Fée X•S Française, which are two “extra supérieure,” wine-based absinthes; and La Fée NV, a lower strength absinthe for "modern drinking." There is one last stage before we are ready to bottle: A sample is couriered to Marie-Claude Delahaye (in Paris) and George Rowley, who test each batch, using their extensive experience of tasting Absinthe and their knowledge of the original master recipe. This starts with colour (crystal clear), then adding water to establish the depth of louche (white with a hint of blue).

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Vincent van Gogh - One of the world's most revered artists, is believed to have enjoyed a fair share of absinthe in his day This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. ( June 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) La Fée Absinthe Blanche Parisienne was first distilled in 2011 in association with the Musée de l’Absinthe, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and its founder and curator, Marie-Claude Delahaye. It is distilled in copper stills at the Cherry Rocher distillery in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-east France and contains 11 different herbs and spices, including Artemisia absinthium (Grande Wormwood) and Artemisia pontica (Petite Wormwood). It is bottled at 53% ABV: The traditional strength for Blanche absinthe was 53% ABV - 55% ABV. [ citation needed] Swiss absinthe historically was mainly a local spirit and the ban was enforced following a referendum.