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SPIRITS
SUCCESS STORY
TRÉSOR GIN MAISON ODART:
NATURE’S HIDDEN TREASURES
LAURA DUCLOS AND MANFRED AUDARD WHO
STARTED TRÉSOR GIN
In the icy cold Canadian winters, Manfred Audard,
Laura Duclos and their team have found the
precious ingredients used to create Trésor gin. One
by one, each herb, fruit and spice are painstakingly
selected before beginning the process of blending,
adding, combining and tasting. “Our aim was to
create unique gins which stand apart from those
that are already commercially available”, explains
Manfred Audard. “The first recipe we created is the
N°13 with thirteen ingredients foraged in a genuine
treasure hunt to obtain the perfect balance between
the herbs, spices, fruit and flowers. Juniper berries
are the key ingredient, which is why we chose to use
cade juniper with its smooth, resin-like notes”. The
broad-ranging collection of flavours includes the
N°6, packaged in a clear Champagne-style bottle,
which has six distinctive ingredients: strawberries,
raspberries, cherries, cranberries, blueberries and
a touch of rhubarb. The aim is to offer a rounded,
smooth, appetising spirit. “It has become essential
to offer specific recipes with a difference and styles
geared to your audience, whilst remaining competitively
priced”, adds Audard. “In our Canadian
market, there are over one hundred local gins, so
it’s up to us to be creative and innovative. But we are
seeing interest from emerging markets, particularly
India, Mexico and the Caribbean”.
‘WILD’ GIN BY THE DAMES BLANCHES DISTILLERY
LES DAMES BLANCHES: WILD GIN
In Champagne country, there are multiple flavours.
Located in a former convent of Queen Blanche of
Castile, in Jonquery in the Marne department, the
Dames Blanches distillery has made it its mission
to produce superior quality spirits since 2020. A
single malt whisky sits alongside a gin distilled
from grapes grown in the vineyards, which allows
each stage of the production process to be monitored,
from the grape to the glass. “Our aim is to
produce a wild gin from organic plants”, recounts
Paul-Louis Ammeux, the owner of the distillery with
his brother Augustin. “No flavourings are added. All
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