You can consult as well the large number of reviews to check what other Absintheurs think about a specific Absinthes and brands. It has sort of a pre-ban, vintage taste profile. It is a very traditional Absinthe with a delicious wine alcohol base. If you want to spend a little bit less money our recommendation is Heritage Verte. drink in France in the 1800s, and consists of wormwood, fennel and anise. All Jade Absinthes are a good buy as well. Beautiful and stylish vintage French absinthe bottle / carafe with the finest. Good choices are ALANDIA Verte and Maison ALANDIA, our housebrands, or Suisse Verte, with its incomparable fresh taste.
These Absinthes have a more complex recipe and taste. If you already have some experiences with the Green Fairy our recommendation is to buy an Absinthe from our Premium section. A good first buy is as well the Absinthe Samples set we offer for sale. With this Absinthe you are definitely on the right track. It is a distilled Absinthe from France with an easy to drink taste profile. If you are new to the world of Absinthe, we recommend to order our bestselling Absinthe Strong68.
Beautiful Absinthe Gift Sets and discounted Nice-Price Sets complete our selection. If you want to sample different Absinthes the Miniatures section is right for you. Collectors find some interesting products in the Vintage Absinthe and Collectors area. The Extraordinary Absinthe section is for curious Absintheurs, who want to try out something new. Furthermore you can buy macerated and non-licorice Absinthe in our store. Accordingly, you will find matching Absinthes in our categories Strong Absinthe and Original Absinthe. Perhaps it was not the purchase the brand initially hoped for, but Stella and the green fairy are still alive and well in our collection.Absinthe primarily differs in the quality of the production method and its wormwood content. I didn’t buy a Stella bike, but I did acquire the poster. The colors are bright, the graphics strong and the green fairy confidently pedals quickly past the viewer. My position is that, after an hour or two of inspiration aided by a bottle of absinthe, our intrepid poster artist decided the green fairy-a common name for absinthe at the time-was the theme to embrace. By the 1920s, bicycle posters had been around for more than 30 years, and thousands of posters had adorned the plaza walls of Paris and beyond.
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The first time I ran across it at auction in Paris, I knew I wanted it-although I was not entirely sure why.Īs I stared at the poster, I couldn’t help but, in my mind’s eye, see a poster artist sitting at his desk, racking his soul for inspiration on how to create a new angle to sell a poster (and a Stella bike). And of all its output, this small poster takes top honors in the land of whacky and whimsy. There are Stella posters that look like profound art masterpieces, some rather pedestrian and yet others whimsical.įor me, the whimsical posters really set Stella apart from the majority of its competitors. Looking through our collection of original Stella posters, it appears that the brand was willing to try just about any angle to motivate a consumer to buy its bikes. In 1792, Dr Pierre Ordinaire wrote a recipe for a drink containing a variety of essential oils, including an extract of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Not unlike advertising today, the gamut of promotion style was vast. In the pre-World War II era, posters were an essential advertising medium. Legras glass and silver opera muff flask or Absinthe bottle c1890 Nothing could illustrate the era of La Belle Epoque better than this exquisite absinthe. Long before the bright lights of fame that Bobet’s victories brought, Stella fought for buyer attention in the crowded space of French bicycle manufacturers. A family business through its near-70-year-long lifespan, the brand was lifted to a new level of fame in the 1950s by three-time Tour de France winner Louison Bobet. Tucked away in Nantes, France, the Stella bicycle company was launched in 1909. Get access to everything we publish when you