{"id":4051,"date":"2018-09-04T13:37:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zufanek.cz\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2019-01-15T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:59:31","slug":"dubied-1798-zufanek-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zufanek.cz\/en\/2018\/dubied-1798-zufanek-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubied 1798 – \u017duf\u00e1nek 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1794, Abram-Louis Perrenoud scribbled a recipe for Extrait d\u2019Absinthe in his distilling
\ndiary and started making his first absinthe potion. At the time, it was a tonic in the true sense of the word. A tincture to be added to white wine and taken for stomach disorders. The popularity grew for this wormwood miracle because people liked to drink it, even when they weren\u2019t ailing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The commercial potential of the potion did not go unnoticed by Daniel-Henri Dubied<\/strong>, a lace merchant with no experience in distilling. He bought the recipe from Perrenoud and employed his son, Henri-Louis, who had learnt the distilling trade from his father. In 1798<\/strong>, Dubied, along with his sons and Henri-Louis Perrenoud, began producing absinthe under the name of\u00a0Dubied P\u00e8re et Fils<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was the world\u2019s first commercially-produced absinthe.<\/p>\n

Cut to March 2018<\/strong>. The world of absinthe is shaken by the news that the first preserved bottle of Dubied P\u00e8re et Fils has just been discovered.<\/p>\n

A bottle from the dawn of absinthe time. From an era when the Antarctic was still waiting to be discovered, when the Spaniards sold Florida to the United States, when Charles X ruled France and Francis I ruled Bohemia, an era more than thirty years before the famous boozers Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Vincent van Gogh were born.<\/p>\n

The bottle went to the absinthe museum in M\u00f4tiers, Switzerland, becoming the absinthe
\nanalogue to the Mona Lisa.<\/p>\n

In fact, there were two bottles\u2026<\/p>\n

The second one was opened and samples of the precious spirit were offered to prominent absinthe fans. Good fortune had it that exactly 220 years<\/strong> after the making of the first absinthe bottle, a young, progressive distiller from South Moravia got to taste this legendary manna.<\/p>\n

And this is what resulted from his tasting. A reproduction of the oldest absinthe recipe.
\nAbsinthe that tastes just like it tasted at its origin.<\/p>\n

1798 \u2013 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

220 years of absinthe history in 220 litres of absinthe.<\/p>\n

The circle will be complete in October 2018.<\/p>\n

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(Photos of the Dubied bottle courtesy of\u00a0Marc Thuillier – absintheoriginals.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n