Tuesday, 03 June 2008 09:21

La Clandestine is coming to the USA! After several months working with our US partners, Viridian, we are delighted to announce our US launch.

Initially we will be launching in New York, Illinois, Louisiana and California. Because La Clandestine is hand-crafted and not made in a factory, we don't make enormous quantities of it. Claude-Alain Bugnon has been working very hard to make as much as we can for the first shipments, but there are only so many hours in a day! Swiss clocks are very accurate and we have not found a way to get more than 24 hours into one day ... yet.

We will be publish regular updates here.

In the meantime, here are the historic (for us, anyway!) photos of our first order for USA as it is processed ...

Pre-empting the launch, The Green Magazine has a great article about absinthe with a nice focus on an absinthe that is not green (but maybe our competitors are!):

The Green Magazine Absinthe Story September 2008.pdf

Here is the first pre-launch story from Grub Street in the New York Magazine:

Grub Street New York Magazine 20 August 2008.pdf

and here are the first stories about the launch:

Down by the Hipster Blog 28 August 2008.pdf

More coming ...