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It all began during the very hot summer of 1885… Emile Giffard was a dispensing pharmacist and neighbor of the "Grand Hotel" in Angers, in the Loire Valley. However, he was no mere chemist. . Inventive, curious and gourmet, he undertook research on the digestive and refreshing properties of mint. He thereby invented a pure, clear and refined white mint liqueur which he tested with the Grand Hotel's customers, in order to relieve them from heat. Success came at once. Emile changed his pharmacy into a distillery and called his liqueur MENTHE PASTILLE, referring to the mint sweets very famous at that time.
Four generations later, Giffard & Co, still in the hands of the Giffard
family, produces, beside
Menthe Pastille, "Crèmes de fruits", liqueurs, Guignolet, Fruits in brandy
and syrups. Quality has been their watchword all this time.
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GIFFARD History in Pictures |
