La Gauloise Verte Herbal Liqueur 700ml

La Gauloise comes from the Distillerie du Centre in Limoges, a house with roots in the 1780s and a recipe built on more than thirty herbs, roots and spices. St John's wort, saffron, cardamom and genepi all feature, double distilled over a wood fire before the liqueur is balanced with spirit and sugar syrup and left to settle slowly.

The Verte is the bolder of the two. It pours an electric green and the nose is spicy and herbal, dried flowers with mint, fennel, vanilla and a wormwood bite underneath. The palate carries real sweetness but with far more aromatic drive and bitterness than the yellow, the herbs staying front and centre through the middle.

Serve it very cold as a digestif, or use it where a green Chartreuse would normally go: a Last Word, a Bijou, or a long serve over crushed ice with tonic and lime.