Top Picks for Fruit Eau-de-Vie

Clear color. Delicate, interesting, attractive aromas of sesame nougat, cashew butter, and white chocolate raisins with a silky, vibrant, dryish light body and a tingling, long warm milk and honey, toasted exotic nuts, crispy chicken skin, and barnyard hay finish. A delightful creamy eau-de-vie with lots of tropical cocktail affinity.

Brilliant clear color. Interesting aromas and flavors of sautéed shittakes and sweet potatoes, pear fruit leather, miso and soy, and teriyaki vegetables with a satiny, bright, dry-yet-fruity medium-to-full body and a peppery, compelling, medium-long nut oil, spiced citrus and plantain, and vanilla hemp milk finish. An interesting very savory and earthy pear eau-de-vie with a nice texture.

Brilliant clear color. Fruity, spicy, vaporous aromas of baked and poached apples, pears and carrots, peppery spices, apple taffy and gum, and model glue and rubber cement with a satiny, light-to-medium body and a hot, appealing, long rock sugar sugar, waxy candy, apple bobbing pond water in a pewter tub, and Coleman’s fuel finish. A fiery moonshiney apple brandy for punches.

clear with a silver cast color. Bold, vaporous aromas of paint and turpentine, charred tropical pineapple, jackfruit, and durian, rubber sap and mothballs with a tannic, lively, fruity sweet medium body and a hot, medium-length Coleman’s’ fuel, rubber cement, scorched pineapple tin, and cashew fruit finish. A fiery and rustic spirit, similar to baijiu.