Review Detail

Aroma:
Boozy wormwood flowers before adding water. Trinity forward once louched. Sugar coated, creamy fennel up front wrapped in fruity anise and backed by woodsy wormwood notes.
Appearance:
Deep olive green. Turns a creamy minty green with a blue white ring around the edge when louched. When you swirl the glass baby blue streaks cling to the sides of the glass.
Louche:
Lovely golden red trails shoot through the olive green and clouds nice and slow.
Taste:
The flavor explodes as soon as it hits your tongue, Trinity forward and immediately opens into floral, powdery, confectioners sugar, then medicine bitter on the back of the tongue. The confectionery notes mirror 1910 Pernod Fils mid palate, and not just a little bit. The Pernod Fils notes really stand out on the middle of the tongue making me want to hold onto it as long as possible. Rich, velvety mouthfeel.
Finish:
A little bitter, which subsides and turns into more confectioners sugar or pleasant sugar coating. Unfortunately fades kind of quickly. I knocked down the score in this section just because I'd like that flavor to hang on longer.
Overall:
The flavor builds glass after glass and I taste 1910 Pernod Fils more and more.
I've tasted this absinthe side by side with a vintage 1910 Pernod Fils to make sure I wasn't making things up. 1910 Pernod Fils is a bit softer and rounded off, but my notes are spot on. The aromas are different and the initial taste on the tongue varies, but mid palate, these are the same. The more I go back and forth, the harder it is to differentiate them. If it wasn't for the different color and aroma, I couldn't tell them apart. The Pernod Fils lingers longer on the finish.