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Gin — 42% vol. — 70cl.
The Snake Charmer is a gin with contraband scents. A herbal and spicy gin that gives pride of place to roots, enhanced with the grande and petite absinthe and a finish with citrus notes. Not to be put in all hands!
Behind this exotic-sounding name lies a completely different story: during the Roaring Twenties, the Flappers, rebels and avant-garde, used the term Snake Charmers to designate women who clandestinely distilled, in particular gin, during American prohibition.
Label made by La vermine
The story begins at the source... A fountain, three friends and a common passion: absinthe!
It was during our weekly meetings at the fountain on Place des Grottes in Geneva, to enjoy the end-of-day market and the euphoria it brings, that we took pleasure in tasting one or another absinthe found here and there, unknowingly leading our palates on an adventure that we would never have imagined.
With past experiences, our curiosity then pushes us to try creating our own absinthe. Over the course of trials and, I must say, a few failures, our recipe begins to take shape and the little absinthe fairy gives us her approval. With the help of the information gleaned, we refine this recipe and create a second one with a different aromatic profile.
Success, admittedly relative, and as time went by, we got caught up in the game and our custom production in the distillery of a former clandestine in Val-de-Travers no longer suited us. We finally decided to ask for permission to acquire a still in order to distil ourselves. We then received our two stills and chose to set up our distillery in Fleurier, in the historic cradle of absinthe.