Génépy

Pale and light in the glass, génépy opens with a rush of green alpine herbs — hay, thyme, sage and a distinct camphoraceous, medicinal lift — over the gentle bitterness of its wormwood-cousin Artemisia. It is only lightly sweet for a liqueur, so the herbal and faintly bitter character dominates, with a warm spirit backbone at around forty percent ABV. The palate is aromatic and drying, the finish long, herbaceous and slightly resinous, tailing off into thyme, honey and mountain-herb bitterness — rustic and wilder than the polished, denser Chartreuse it recalls.