What eau de vie goes with
Eau de vie is distilled fruit without wood ageing: pear, cherry, raspberry, mirabelle or plum. Clear in the glass, and the fruit is in the aroma, not in the taste.
That last one surprises most people. You smell ripe pear and expect sweetness, and what follows is bone dry. It is precisely that difference that makes it useful after a heavy dessert.
Because no wood is involved, there is nothing that masks the fruit. A poor distillation you taste immediately; a good one smells of the fruit as if you were cutting it open.
How to serve it
- Glass
- A narrow tulip glass.
- Temperature
- Cool, around ten degrees. Ice cold, the aroma disappears, and the aroma is the whole point.
- Neat or mixed
- Neat, in a small glass, after the meal.
What it goes with
- apple pie
- cherry pie
- fresh fruit
- chocolate
- hard cheese
- espresso
This applies to the type as a whole. What an individual bottle does is on the page of that bottle.
All 35 eau de vie on the shelfAll recommendations from ’t Bockje
With every bottle of eau de vie and obstler comes its own recommendation
The page of every bottle of eau de vie and obstler in the shop has a recommendation of its own: something with the meal or drinks, a cheese and something for afterwards, with the shopping list and the preparation.