DOM BENEDICTINE

D.O.M Benedictine is one of those secret ancestral recipes invented by French monks. Made in Fécamp, Normandy, this amber-coloured plant liqueur is said to have medicinal properties. In 1863, a merchant from the town of Fécamp found this forgotten recipe and named it after the Benedictine monks with their motto: Deo Optimo Maximo - "God absolutely good, absolutely great". He even had a palace built to house the distillery where the liqueur is still produced today. The recipe includes four basic preparations using 27 different plants, infused in alcohol and then distilled. The result, called "spirit", is then aged in oak barrels and coloured with saffron. Lemon balm, juniper and angelica are the most prominent aromas.