Louis Roque La Vieille Prune Reserve Plum BrandyThis Plum brandy is made by Distillerie Louis Roque in Souillac, Quercy, in the southwest of France near the Gascony region. It is distilled from three varieties of plums: Ente (a red plum), Mirabelle (yellow plum most famous in the Lorraine) and Reine Claude (green plum grown all over France). After being double distilled on a bain marie style copper pot still, it is aged 45 years in 400 liter oak casks. The reduction to 42% abv is done gradually

with no dilution or filtration

fragrant grassland

The finish is warming and satisfying with lingering dried fruit

Once upon a pre-prohibition time

The spirit base provides structure and warmth

and Corsican mint

But whereas Blended Scotch combines malted barley spirit with other grain spirits

That pairing didn't work out for some reason

Dimmi (Italian for “tell me”) was launched by a pair of third generation

Mashed Herbs

rose and lavender

The two created Germain-Robin