Poire Liqueur (350 ml)

Mathilde Liqueurs, produced under the Maison Ferrand umbrella in the Cognac region, built its poire expression around a single varietal commitment: Williams (Bartlett) pears, chosen for their pronounced floral-fruity aromatic intensity over more neutral varieties. The fruit is macerated directly in a neutral grain spirit base before blending with pear eau-de-vie, a two-stage extraction that preserves both the raw-fruit freshness and the deeper, almost fermented complexity of ripe pear skin.

The liqueur is bottled at 18% ABV — low enough to keep residual sweetness from becoming cloying, high enough to carry the macerate's aromatic load without dilution. No chill-filtration is applied, which allows the natural fruit esters to remain fully intact in the bottle. The 350 ml format is the standard retail size for this expression.

What separates this from generic pear liqueurs is the dual-extraction method: cold maceration of fresh Williams pears layered with a proportion of pear eau-de-vie, producing a depth of varietal character — blossom, ripe flesh, and a faint almond-skin bitterness from the core — that single-maceration competitors rarely achieve. Serve well-chilled neat, over ice, or as a cocktail modifier.