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Absinthe Absente - 10 cl
- Alcohol Content : 55°
- Production Method : Mix of Essences
- Country of Origin : France
- Distillery : Dist. et Dom. de Provence
Sweet, Absente is often compared to pastis except for the wormwood essences added.
However, it bases its marketing on false recieved ideas : „we have taken out the dangerous molecule“ ; what a shame !
Distilleries et Domaines de Provence, founded in 1898, is the hair of a several thousand year old tradition : the gathering of medicinal plants in the mountain of Lure, known for the richness and the abundance of the species.
It is in that place and since the Middle Ages, that medicinal plant pickers have been peddling their distilled herbs that they had cautiously collected. During the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, these peddlers settled in many towns of the region as hardware merchants or apothecaries.
In the XIXth century, some of them became pharmacists, others distillers and a few of them became both at the same time. The specialities that they elaborated with the plants from Lure were often drinks or beverages with vertues than could be purgative, bracing, digestive, aperitive or refreshing. Wine, alcohol, maceration and distillation are ways to take their aromas and activ principals away from plants and to conserve them. It is only at the end of the century that distillers got specialized in the production of liqueurs and aperitifs.
Nowadays, this know-how has been passed on for over a hundred years whithin one society, Distilleries et Domaines de Provence, and is spreading throughout the world, to please amateurs of spirits.
- For one measure of absinthe (3cl), add 2 to 5 measures of fresh water.
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- 10 cl
- 55°
- Mix of Essences
- Yes
- Green (very pale)
- France
- Forcalquier / Provence
- Dist. et Dom. de Provence
- Steel screw cap
- Natural
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This stuff was my first (& much appreciated) taste of absinthe back in 2007. Since then, I've had over 30 other brands... and good lord, how my standards have changed. It was a fun revisit for nostalgia but not much else. Sweet & sugary with an odd medicinal bitterness, it's not the best for a first time, but it could have been waaaay worse (Hills. need I say more?)
Sweet, hardly no bitterness (which is not a quality for an absinthe).
You can taste the alcohol but only hardly.
Its an aniseed drink, agreeable, but with no herbal flavours.
Artificial colouring.
However, it has quite a nice louche.
This absinthe is not quite (although I rather mean not at all) an absinthe, because the principle plante is absente ! It is some kind of plant cocktail that you can hardly taste with a little anise.
