La Fée Parisienne Absinthe, 1 x 70cl

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La Fée is the only Brand to have the endorsement and direct involvement of the French Absinthe Museum and Marie-Claude Delahaye. A unique quality control procedure that applies to both our Absinthe Supérieure, Parisienne and Blanche.

The Absinthe Museum in Auvers-sur-Oise, France shows social and cultural life of the impressionist era with artefacts, posters and paintings - with a bar to sample absinthe La Fée X•S Suisse, officially released in 2007, is a La Bleue produced in the town of Couvet in the Val-de-Travers region of Switzerland. Each distillation takes place in small copper stills which have the capacity to produce just over 100 bottles. It has a wine alcohol base. La Fée is distilled using three artemisia plants at its heart: Grand (Artemisia absinthium) & Petit Absinthe (Artemisia pontica) and Genepi (Genepi Artemisia), Green and Star Anise, Fennel, Hyssop and Coriander.La Fée is the only Brand to have the endorsement and direct involvement of the French Absinthe Museam and Marie-Claude Delahaye. A unique quality control procedure that applies to both our Absinthe Supérieure, Parisienne and Blanche. Already busy importing Czech beer, Rowley wanted to do the same with a drink he came across in Prague called Hill’s Absinth (notice the missing ‘e’). While speaking to the producers he learned they’d been privately supplying musician John Moore – of The Jesus and Mary Chain fame – who had similar designs on the UK market. Absinthe makes you go mad.’ In the late 19th and early 20th century, France’s temperance advocates hammered this message home so zealously that it led to a ban in 1915. It wasn’t until the 1990s that absinthe, in its authentic form, reappeared. Phylloxera decimates vineyards across Europe and especially France – Absinthe becomes the perfect replacement for wine, accelerating Absinthe’s popularity.

Swiss absinthe historically was mainly a local spirit and the ban was enforced following a referendum. 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”. Marie-Claude Delahaye Once experienced, the local Czech product is the first step to a true appreciation of the finer points of real lager or beer. Unfortunately, consumers in Britain have become so accustomed to the sterility and blandness of lager that is treated to achieve a twelve-month shelf-life, they are often unaware of what they are missing. Marketing hyperbole maintains the illusion by extolling the virtues of “crisp” and “clean” beer, while the original, full-bodied character of the beer is lost in translation. Fortunately, there would be no such difficulty with absinthe, being a spirit with such a high volume of alcohol that it makes pasteurisation irrelevant.Each bottle of La Fée Parisienne Absinthe Supérieure is coated in a UV inhibitor, which protects its delicate natural ingredients from light damage. The tall, thin shape of the bottle matches those most commonly found at Delahaye’s museum – a further effort to honour the drink’s heritage. 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.