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The home of La Fee Verte, the magical cliffs of Creux du Van, high in the mountains above the Val de Travers. We gathered there – from France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, the US, Germany, Scandanavia – the day before the Fete de l’Absinthe at Boveresse to celebrate 10 years of the Fee Verte Absinthe Forum, and especially to pay tribute to Kallisti, who started it all.

   Kallisti and Head

   The Heads and Francois Thevenin, GM of the Emile Pernot distillery in Pontarlier.

   The Standard Deviant dressed down as usual.

    Sixela (personal motto: Vorsprung durch Pedantik) explains an interesting nuance of the rarely used French pluperfect subjunctive to Dom, Marc and Helfrich. Then they tried to throw him off the cliff.

    A rare photograph of publicity-shy Ted Breaux, the enigmatic Garbo-like founder of Jade Liqueurs.

   The hallowed walls of the Le Soliat fondue hut at the top of the cliffs have a new marking….the enigmatic Head Prosthesis was here!

Spent this morning at the Combier distilery in Saumur, where Ted Breaux distills the Jade absinthes. The historic still-room was designed by Gustave Eiffel – the distinctive metalwork of his studio is immediately apparent in the girders and railings that support the cooling apparatus for the 10 stills. There are eight circa 1870 Egrot stills, and two 1100 litre Renaud stills bought in the early 1900’s from Pernod Fils.

Further to my post at the Fee Verte Forum, a few small clarifications:

1. This is based on direct first hand knowledge, not an inference drawn from the activities of Lucid/Veridian. There are, as you’d expect, commercial considerations that preclude me from revealing everything I know, but as and when I can say more, I will.

2. The actual language used is 10ppm (part per million), which is equivalent to 10mg/l.