How to drink like the French this Christmas
For a festive drink, there is only one country to consider. Anthony Peregrine toasts the best French spirits and the regions that made them A pint of creme de menthe for my friend!
The festive meal is coming to an end. You are replete. The kids have cleared off – with luck, to join a circus, the military or holy orders. You straighten the paper hat and sweep away the last crumbs of stilton. The moment has come for an after-dinner drink, a digestif. As the name suggests, this will enhance digestion. Allegedly. Almost all French spirits were devised with health and long life in mind, for French pleasure usually requires a coating of earnestness. Subsequently, manufacturers downplayed the elixir bit, so as to embrace sensual sophistication. Cointreau even hired Dita Von Teese. This is the sort of input a festive food finale requires.