Giffard Wild Elderflower Liqueur

Description

Liqueur: Giffard Wild Elderflower

Wild elderflowers are hand-picked and macerated in alcohol to produce this floral liqueur from Giffard.

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Size: 750ML

Proof: 40 (20% ABV)

Origin: France

Distillery: Giffard

Dense clusters of a wild varietal of small, pale yellow elderflowers are hand-harvested each Spring from orchards in the French Countryside. The intensley aromatic, delicate blossoms are naturally dried and set to macerate in small batches in small batchesto extract their ambrosial fragrance and flavor reminiscent of honeysuckle, muscat grapes, rose, lychee fruit, and saffron.

Giffard Wild Elderflower Liqueur Tasting Notes

Nose: Floral honeyed elderflower with faint cut grassy and mint.

Palate: Again, floral with honeyed sweetness. Muscat grapes, rose, lychee fruit, and saffron.

Finish: Floral elderflower and cut grass light citrus acidity.

Distillery Information

At that time, Émile Giffard was a dispensing chemist living in Angers (Val de Loire).He had an inventive, inquiring mind, and was a gourmet as well. He took an interest in the digestive and refreshing properties of mint, and ended up concocting a pure, clear and refined white mint liqueur which he promptly put to the test by offering the guests at the Grand Hotel a sip of his cordial as a relief against the heat wave.

Having found instant success, Émile turned his pharmacy into a distillery and named his liqueur Menthe-Pastille , in reference to the tiny mint sweets that were all the rage in those days./p>

Five generations later, the family business still bears the GIFFARD name and is proud to uphold the high standards of quality instilled by its original creator.