Eau de vie "prisonner peer"

How to make eau de vie?

To make eau de vie, manufacturers first crush the fruit being used as the base ingredient. The mashed fruit is then inoculated with yeast and left to ferment for several weeks. After fermentation is complete, the eau de vie is aged in a steel or glass case for a few months until it is ready to be mixed with water and bottled. 

Eau de vie contains at least 40% of alcohol! Warning when you tasted!

What is the "prisonner peer"?

The fruit is developping inside the bottle for a divine result!A wWilliams peer exceptional!

To get a prisonner peer, the empty bottle is fixed in a peer tree on spring and placed on the top of the flower to let it grow up inside the bottle. When it's mature, the fruit and the bottle are delicately cuted off and then, the peer eau de vie is added. The peer stay good as long she stays in its eau de vie.

Be careful!! Never eat the peer after you finish the bottle, it is disgusting!!

 "Prisonner peer" tree

How to taste eau de vie?


- Serve it: 
In very small amounts (1-2 cl). The digestive is the last key aroma of a good meal.
There are several ways to taste the fruits eau de vie. The eau de vie can be served chilled, it softens and the perception of alcohol, the feeling of freshness is especially nice. Barracks, it seems more open, all facets of its aroma are fully express (also faults!).

- Keep it:
In general, the eau de vie do not like light. It is best to keep cool in the dark. The bottle always has to remain vertical.

- Look at it:
• Color: Colorless, opaline, translucent, clear honey, golden, amber, old gold, copper.
• Clarity: Clear, transparent, crystalline, pure.
• The brightness: Bright, luminous, sparkling, dazzling.
• Viscosity: fluid, flexible, light, air, flowing, fleshy, thick with fat.

- Smell it:
First nose without shaking the glass, it is the first time in nose, it is the discovery of the more subtile flavors. By moving the glass, new impressions emerge.• second nose prints on a rotation in the glass, smells are different.• third nose after a short rest we discover yet another aspect, should seek to describe his sensations, and boost attention.
The nose of brandy is constantly changing during the tasting

Smells: Floral: rose, violet, elderflower, acacia, verbena, lime, mint
Fruit: pear, apple, cherry, raspberry, plum, plum, apple, peach, banana, grapes, quince, pineapple, black currant, strawberry, red fruit, berries, exotic fruits
Vegetable: fresh herbs, dried herbs, mint, lemongrass, fennel, anise

 - Taste it: The eau de vie is drunk slowly in small sips, which avoids the impression of light alcohol. We keep a time (10 to 20 seconds!) In the mouth by turning in his mouth and aspirations short of air.

 The long inouth has to be persistent.


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