(Unlike pear, those brandies don't have whole fruit inside the bottle, at least in the U.S.) To make eau de vie, mashed fruit pulp is fermented and distilled. It takes two weeks to ferment the ...

Free of blemishes, the fruit is mashed, fermented and distilled twice in traditional copper pot stills. To reach the pinnacle of flavor essence, 30 pounds of pears are needed to make one bottle ...