With the right pear: the art of French distillation - L'Incorrect

The "little drop" owes its name to distillation. When distillation begins, alcohol falls drop by drop. But the expression "little drop" embodies much more than a process of transformation. It was a ritual for centuries. The ritual of rural France, that of the stills and of the boilers of raw. It was in the Middle Ages that the alchemists invented the term "elixir de long vie" which derived from the "elixir de long vie". This aqua vitae (the Lati…