La Fée Absinthe
La Fée Absinthe is one of the best-known brands of absinthe, a highly alcoholic, anise-flavored, distilled liquor containing the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). La Fée Absinthe is created by Green Utopia which is owned and run by George Rowley.
La Fée comes in four styles: Parisian, an anise-flavored absinthe; Bohemian, a low-anise absinth; and La Fée X•S Suisse and La Fée X•S Française, two ‘extra supérieure,’ wine-based absinthes.
La Fée Absinthe Parisienne
La Fée Absinthe Parisienne was first produced in July, 2000 in association with the Musée de l’Absinthe, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and its founder and curator Marie-Claude Delahaye.
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 plants, including ‘Artemisia absinthium’ and ‘Petite’ wormwood- Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood). It is artificially colored green, bottled at 68% abv and a 45% abv ’shooter’ version.
While La Fée Parisienne is normally drunk in the traditional manner of adding chilled water by pouring it over a sugar cube, Parisienne can be mixed with many modern cocktails.
La Fée Absinth Bohemian
La Fée Bohemian Absinth was first produced in November 2004 in response to demand for Czech-style absinth in several of its markets worldwide. Being “czech-style” and lacking anise and a louche it should be considered a different product from absinthe.
It is popularly used in cocktails instead of being drunk in the traditional method of absinthe.
La Fée X•S Absinthe Suisse
La Fée X•S Suisse, officially released in 2007, is a La Bleue produced in the small town of Couvet in the Val-de-Travers region of Switzerland. Each distillation takes place in small copper stills that have the capacity to produce just over 100 bottles.
In 2007 La Fée Absinthe X•S Suisse won the following awards. International Wine and Spirits Competition - Silver and ‘Best in Class’, and at the International Spirits Challenge, - ‘New Brand Innovation Award’
La Fée X•S Absinthe Française
La Fée X•S Française, officially released in 2007, is a naturally colored verte and is distilled in the historical town of Pontarlier, the French homeland of absinthe. X•S Française uses stills purchased second hand in 1870 are used along with traditional distillation methods, a selection of herbs and a wine alcohol base.
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