Description
Giffard Elderflower
Introduction
From the choicsest open-field elderflowers is Giffard Elderflower which has a delicate floral bouquet and light refreshing taste and Giffard is the liqueur for you, a perfect addition to your cocktails. Liqueur: the light temptation. The key to cocktails.
Production
This we can do by making this curious, complicated, deliciously fiddly liqueur out of the absolute of picked elderflowers, in their flowering season. At first, pick the liqueur. No later than the eightieth day after the spring equinox, carefully bottle it. This liqueur contains the absolute of the spring at its most limpid and freshest. Present it accordingly: as a jewel.
Appearance
It is this touchstone against magic that flashes in my glass, in a gold, a light, in which the elderberry flowers tremble angeld and the tops of meadows beat in the wind, so blue and thin it cuts, and so crystal sharp, that the liquid into which it’s thrown will straight away be more full than it is.
Aroma
Inhale, and taste the Giffard Elderflower on your tongue: floral, with undertones of sweet-sour citrus and pear, and with a thread of vanilla. Stick out your tongue, and feel its deeper, more earthy harmonies.
Palate
This Giffard Elderflower is light remarkably light, like a fairly warm and humid breeze carrying the smell of a flowering garden, sweet, and twitteringly open with good acids, and with a silky cool sweet gauze feel on the palate and a generous, sweet, lingering finish.
Finish
Finish adds an echo of bitterness: to this polka chante, this perfect conduct. uncorrect, too expert, this liqueur was, and and yet promising a second listening, more fully ripe.
Conclusion
Giffard Elderflower is not liqueur. It’s flavour made ethereal – a spritz of flower distilled into bottle. Me, it lends an element of gravitas to all cocktails, and its clean, green hit even finds its way to my lips when sipped neat, over ice. Beauty is amplified by the Giffard Elderflower.
