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The People who Pioneered Absinthe's Renaissance

   

1: The Early Days
1998 was the start of an astonishing journey. Its purpose was to restore absinthe to legal status in France, the European Union and the wider world...
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 2: The Formative Years
The First step was to ensure that absinthe could legally be imported into the UK, which meant establishing a legal precedent with the Government's Trading Standards Agency...
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3: Discovering the truth... and doing something about it!
The launch at the Groucho Club paved the way for a careful programme of bar selection and staff training once the product was released...

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4: Finding the right people - Team La Fée 
Several months after that first failed visit to the museum I wrote to Madame Delahaye, asking for her permission to visit again...
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5: The Industry takes note - going global with serious consequences...
Having opened the absinthe category in 1998, and now selling across the world; we may justly lay claim to having significantly shaped the absinthe market over the past ten years.
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