This is not Dubied is a distilled continuation of the Dubied Absinthe saga. In 2018, the Czech distiller Martin Žufánek already offered a replica of the world's oldest commercially manufactured Absinthe "Dubied". It was a limited edition to celebrate a rare find of an old Dubied Absinthe bottle. The bottles sold very fast, too fast to satisfy all the demand. Now there is a new edition, same same, but different.

Marc de Champagne!

For the last three years I have been intensively involved in tasting grower Champagnes, which I have quite fallen for. So in 2019, I purchased a pomace from a Grand Cru grower using the Chardonnay variety, a blanc de blancs. These are the leftover pressed grapes that still have plenty of aromatics and sugar left in them. In Italy, grappa is distilled from fermented pomace, in France Marc.

And what better way to celebrate the beauty of the oldest absinthe than with champagne, right?

This is not Dubied captures the magic of Dubied’s recipe and colouring technique, but on a base that Dubied didn’t have time to use.

It’s not Dubied, but it is Dubied. Same, but different.

Ceci n’est pas un Dubied!