Vieux Pontarlier Absinthe Francaise Superieure

5 Stars / "Highest Recommendation" - F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal Double Gold Medal, Best in Class - San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2008 Ultimate Spirits Challenge 2016 - Chairman's Trophy Winner (Absinthe category) Since 2001, the Emile Pernot Distillery has created and distilled several absinthes that are considered among the best artisanal absinthes in the world. Vieux Pontarlier is craft-distilled in Pontarlier, France, the historic "Capital of Absinthe." Select botanicals and Pontarlier-grown wormwood, which is considered the finest in the world, are distilled in a chardonnay grape base spirit from Burgundy. Vieux Pontarlier was developed over a period of five years at one of the two last remaining absinthe distilleries still functioning in Pontarlier, using the distillery's original, pre-ban logbook notes and antique alembic stills designed specifically for making absinthe