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Combier & Jade Liqueurs
Since 1823 Mentzendorff Kummel has experienced an incredible history. In Allasch, an old Manor House in Livonia, the Barons handed down an old family recipe, a Kummel Liqueur called Allasch Kummel. An export firm in Riga, called Mentzendorff, suggested that the Barons should export Kummel.
Today, the Allasch Kummel is known as Mentzendorff Kummel and is produced in Saumur, France, by a distillery founded in the Loire Valley, Combier distillery. Lucas Bols is believed to have produced the first Kummel in the 1570s.
When is a wine ready to drink?
We provide drinking windows for all our wines. Alongside the drinking windows there is a bottle icon and a maturity stage. Bear in mind that the best time to drink a wine does also depend on your taste.
Not ready
These wines are very young. Whilst they're likely to have lots of intense flavours, their acidity or tannins may make them feel austere. Although it isn't "wrong" to drink these wines now, you are likely to miss out on a lot of complexity by not waiting for them to mature.
Ready - youthful
These wines are likely to have plenty of fruit flavours still and, for red wines, the tannins may well be quite noticeable. For those who prefer younger, fruitier wines, or if serving alongside a robust meal, these will be very enjoyable. If you choose to hold onto these wines, the fruit flavours will evolve into more savoury complexity.
Ready - at best
These wines are likely to have a beautiful balance of fruit, spice and savoury flavours. The acidity and tannins will have softened somewhat, and the wines will show plenty of complexity. For many, this is seen as the ideal time to drink and enjoy these wines. If you choose to hold onto these wines, they will become more savoury but not necessarily more complex.
Ready - mature
These wines are likely to have plenty of complexity, but the fruit flavours will have been almost completely replaced by savoury and spice notes. These wines may have a beautiful texture at this stage of maturity. There is lots to enjoy when drinking wines at this stage. Most of these wines will hold in this window for a few years, though at the very end of this drinking window, wines start to lose complexity and decline.
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Description
Jade was set up by Ted Breaux, one of the world's foremost authorities on Absinthe with the aim of recreating long-lost gems within this enigmatic category. After opening ancient bottles, this 1901 cuvée was painstakingly created with the Combier Distillery in France, which retained distillation apparatus from the 19th century – the golden age of Absinthe.
This Absinthe is rested for over three years before bottling to enable cohesion between the spirit and botanicals. Lightly golden-green in colour, the textbook notes of fennel and anise are prevalent with the moreishly bitter wormwood.
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