Burgundy Franche-Comté. Griottines: When the Peureux distillery searched for the Holy Grail in Yugoslavia

The story of Griottines from the Peureux house in Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert is first and foremost a quest. "The search for the Holy Grail," smiles Bernard Baud, the owner of the historic 150-year-old Haute-Saône distillery. A quest that, as a child, took him, alongside his father, Pierre, on the roads of Europe to unearth the variety capable of fulfilling the company's ambitions: to make the cherry a new, noble product, capable of seducing individuals, but also great chefs, pastry chefs, and other ice cream makers.

Why, then, go looking elsewhere for a fruit that grew in abundance on the borders of the Haute-Saône and the Vosges , the basis of a centuries-old economy of producing eaux-de-vie and liqueurs? "It's precisely because the cherries of the region have a poor shelf life. They are so sweet that as soon as they are picked, they soften, which is why they have always been...

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