A colleague at work (Marc Lauwick) suggested an interesting distillery close to Strasbourg - so we went down this past Sunday and tried some of their products.
Basically the French take every single kind of fruit known to man (and some you haven't heard of) and ferment it. When they're done, they're left with a 45% alcohol content liquor and call it a digestif. They'll also take the same liquor and add some additional fruit and turn it into an aperitif (more for before dinner). The lesson here is that with 50+ different kinds of liquor, you are bound to find something that you like. I picked up a very old Mirabelle, a strawberry aperitif, and a weird mixture of something called Madoudou - kind of can't describe that one.
The whole aperitif and digestif sounds all a bit over the top, but once you get into it - it's a nice way to start and end a meal.
