Verveine de Lunethe liqueur one drinks after the lamps are lit

Gathered by the sisters Aubrac-Sorel on the chalk slopes above Saint-Orme, forty herbs are cut only between moonrise and the first bell. Lemon verbena leads; gentian, hyssop and the pale rose of the hedgerows follow in a slow procession, steeped ninety nights in oak the colour of honey.

• Au nezcrushed verbena, cut hay, a struck match
• En bouchebitter orange, wild honey, green almond
• La fincool, long, faintly of rain on stone