Vintage Absinthe

But T.A. Breaux, an absinthe historian and distiller who created the new Lucid Absinthe Supérieure brand, says that in 2000, he tested vintage bottles of absinthe and surprisingly found no significant amounts of thujone. "I was very shocked," Breaux says. He couldn't hit on the elusive answer until the mid-nineties, when he acquired two unopened bottles of real vintage absinthe. By 2000 he got the equipment he needed to analyze the product. "It opened up a whole new world of possibilities," he said. Only serious absinthe fans (are there any out there?) will want to bother with the traditional service, which makes use of vintage absinthe fountains to drip cold water and sugar into a straight pour ($7-$16). Do try more than one cocktail. The Savoy They have embarked on a quixotic quest to recapture the heady taste of the 19th century, guided by rare bottles of pre-Prohibition absinthe discovered in a Corsican cellar. Those vintage finds predate the absinthe bans that started in the Belgian Congo in It was never dangerous, says Ted Breaux, a New Orleans-based chemist and absinthe historian now invested in making the drink at an old distillery in France. In 2000, he examined sealed, vintage bottles to determine the levels of thujone, the so-called were steeped after the initial distillation for further refinement and color. What began as dabbling in chemistry has led to a full-on production of vintage absinthe within an historic French distillery. With the recent backing of Viridian Spirits in New .

Image: Courtesy of Dirk Lachenmeier, showing the implements of their absinthe sampling process, including a vintage bottle of Pernod Fils, a popular pre-ban absinthe brand. See Also: A fantastic Wired article — "The Mystery of the Green Menace" — on (He said he "evacuated during Katrina with my entire collection of vintage absinthe, all dozen bottles.") "Lucid is intended to be a representation of a good 19th Century absinthe," Breaux said. It's made at the landmark Combier distillery in France using The Minneapolis liquor store is giving out free samples of After years of research, American chemist T.A. Breaux was able to prove that vintage absinthe contained only trace amounts of thujone. "One would die of alcohol poisoning several times over fell within the modern EU limit." The study "Chemical Composition of vintage Preban Absinthe with Special Reference to Thujone, Fenchone, Pinocamphone, Methanol, Copper, and Antimony Concentrations" is scheduled for the May 14, 2008 issue of the Journal of .

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