Riz au Lait: The Frenchman's Ultimate Comfort Food
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Mathilde makes 100% natural, 100% hand picked fruit liqueurs from their French family recipes that are over 100 years old. The Pear liqueur is 18% abv / 36 proof and is a very light yellow, gold in color. The aroma is that of pears that are at the peak of ripeness as if they had been sitting on your counter all week slowly becoming more and more aromatic. This is a light bodied liqueur that is on the pleasurably sweet end of the spectrum, and is crammed full of the essence of ripe pears. I'm drinking it chilled from a snifter and it's like biting into an icy pear so ripe and honeyed that the pear just disintegrates and bursts in your mouth with a splash of sweet nectar. As sometimes happens when I smell and taste a fine spirit I was taken back to 15 years ago. It was the middle of the winter with several feet of snow on the ground and I was taking a course on wilderness survival and Native American spirituality out near the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. We were spending the week tramping around all day in the snow talking, and all night sleeping wrapped up like mummies in our bags in an old, unheated hay filled barn. It was actually quite comfortable if you don't mind temps of 14° F at night. Our food wasn't bad, but it was very boring for a gourmet like me, consisting of all kinds of healthy stuff like roots and hay, uh... I mean kohlrabi and granola.
