DISTILLERIE JEAN GAUTHIER
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The place deserves a detour: you can really spend one hour there, especially on the holiday route to keep kids busy and entertain the parents. The shop of the distillery outside the Musée de l'Alambic offers all the homemade range starting with the "classic " ones, the fruits spirits made with traditional know-how including a famous Williams pear, a great speciality of the firm without omitting the mirabelle, the raspberry or the old plum. Liqueurs, creams, aperitifs, griottines are also available as well as a new product to be discovered: the "Fifty-Fifty", a harmonious blend of spirit and liqueur to be used as digestive or cocktail. The distillery receives more than 150 000 visitors per year! And if you drop by around Christmas, you may have the chance to see Santa Claus appear paragliding (or on quad depending on the weather). This firm has truly become an institution in the Rhône Valley. If you come from Annonay, you just have to go down the valley towards the village of Champagne: it is a predestined name for hosting such a distillery and its museum.
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