La Fée Absinthe
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La Fée Absinthe is one of the best-known brands of absinthe, known as a highly alcoholic, anise-flavored, distilled liquor containing the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), green in color, turning to cloudy, opalescent white when mixed with water. Highly aromatic, this spirit is dry and somewhat bitter in taste, with an alcoholic content of 68 percent by volume (or 136 proof).
La Fée comes in two styles, Parisian, an anise flavored absinthe and Bohemian, a low anise absinth.
[edit] La Fée Parisian Absinthe
La Fée Parisian Absinthe was launched in July 2000 by Green Utopia Ltd. in association with the Musée de l'Absinthe, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and its founder and curator Marie-Claude Delahaye.Green Utopia is owned and run by George Rowley (entrepreneur).
The first traditional absinthe to be commercially produced in France since the ban of 1915, La Fée was developed in a French distillery under the supervision of Mme. Delahaye. It contains a dozen or more plants, including 'Grande' and 'Petite' absinthes - Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood).
While La Fée Parisian is normally drunk in the traditional manner, adding chilled water poured over a sugar cube, there are many modern cocktails.
[edit] La Fée Bohemian Absinth
La Fée Bohemian Absinth (the 'e' is dropped for the Czech spelling) was launched in November 2004 by Green Utopia Ltd., in response to demand for Czech-style absinth in several of its markets worldwide.
It re-creates the traditional Bohemian drink that was produced in the 1920s, with subtle herbal undertones of fennel, mint and rather less aniseed than absinthe produced in France at the end of the 19th Century. Bohemian tastes have always meant that less anise is used in the drink's production, and explains why Bohemian Absinth does not turn milky ('louche') when water is added.
Whereas the heavy aniseed flavor of La Fée Parisian Absinthe is often not suitable for use in cocktails, La Fée Bohemian Absinth has a refined subtlety, whose distinctive flavor allows greater use in cocktails such as the Bohemian Mule and many others.
[edit] External links
- La Fée Absinthe - Brand website
- Absinthe's second coming - An April 2001 article in Cigar Aficionado about the first absinthe commercially produced in France since the 1915 ban.
- The Virtual Absinthe Museum- A comprehensive online museum of absinthe history, lore, art and antiques.
- eAbsinthe.com - Online retailer for La Fée Absinthe
