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Emile Pernot

Distillerie Pernot Absinthe Bourgeois (dominant anise)

Style Absinthe
Producer Emile Pernot
Origin Doubs (La Cluse et Mijoux, near Pontarlier)
Bottle 500ml
$122 / btl
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What it tastes like.

Absinthe Bourgeois 55. Les Fils by Emile Pernot, sweet and aniseed, will appeal to neophytes as well as to the most discerning absinthe lovers. Its relatively mild, subtle taste and its naturally green complexion make it a very pleasant absinthe to drink. La Bourgeois is a distilled absinthe that already existed long before the ban on absinthe. Its very famous label designed by the Mourgue Brothers represents a black cat drinking from a glass of absinthe. The table takes up the main characteristics of the one that Charles Maire had imagined for the Pernod Fils absinthe, namely: the table, the glass, the carafe, not to mention the Pontarlier diary.

55% ABV

500ml

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About Emile Pernot.

Doubs (La Cluse et Mijoux, near Pontarlier) ·Est. 1889

Distillerie Les Fils d'Émile Pernot was founded in 1889 in Pontarlier, capital of French absinthe, by Emile-Ferdinand Pernot, a Fougerolles-trained distiller. The house is one of the few continuously-running absinthe producers from the pre-1915 ban era; it stayed family-run until 2005. In 2009 production moved from central Pontarlier to the old Cousin Jeune building at La Cluse et Mijoux, at the foot of the Château de Joux, where it now operates.

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Why Caravan backs Emile Pernot

Doubs (La Cluse et Mijoux, near Pontarlier)

In 1889, Emile-Ferdinand Pernot — recently arrived from Fougerolles, where he had trained as a distiller — joined the Parrot brothers in Pontarlier to establish Émile Pernot et Cie. The timing put them at the height of the Pontarlier absinthe trade: by 1900, the town had 25 absinthe distilleries employing 38% of its workforce. Pernot survived the 1915 French ban (the firm pivoted to other liqueurs) and resumed absinthe production once the law allowed it. The distillery passed from father to son until 2005, when Emile and Odile Pernot sold the operation.

In 2009 production moved from the original Pontarlier site to the Cousin Jeune building at La Cluse et Mijoux, at the foot of the Château de Joux on the Swiss-French border. The current range carries multiple absinthe expressions — the Vieux Pontarlier reference at 65%, the Bourgeois at 55%, the Berthe de Joux at 56%, the Cousin Jeune at 65%, the Deniset Jeune at 56%, plus a 25% sweetened liqueur d'absinthe — and the unusual Liqueur de Sapin (fir-bud and mountain-plant maceration at 40%).

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