Giffard
Emile Giffard is a pharmacist in Angers, in the Loire Valley, but a pharmacist like no other. A curious inventor and gourmet, he carries out research on the digestive and refreshing properties of mint. He thus develops a pure, transparent, refined, white mint liqueur ... that he trials with customers of the neighbouring Grand Hôtel to relieve them from the heat. Emile then transforms his pharmacy into a distillery and names his liqueur Menthe-Pastille, in reference to the mints that were very popular at that time.
Emile Giffard is a pharmacist in Angers, in the Loire Valley, but a pharmacist like no other. A curious inventor and gourmet, he carries out research on the digestive and refreshing properties of mint. He thus develops a pure, transparent, refined, white mint liqueur ... that he trials with customers of the neighbouring Grand Hôtel to relieve them from the heat. Emile then transforms his pharmacy into a distillery and names his liqueur Menthe-Pastille, in reference to the mints that were very popular at that time.
