Eau de vie. When spoken aloud, the phrase has a delicious poetry, one that’s underlined by its English translation: water of life. For the uninitiated, that water usually refers to clear, unaged fruit ...

Hans Reisetbauer is a burly Austrian distiller in the town of Axberg, where he lives surrounded by plum, cherry, pear and apple orchards. He's a good farmer, but this particular fruit is not destined ...

BLAME IT ON the name: eau de vie, “water of life” en français. It summons visions of medieval plague remedies, or something your grandmother might sip from a cordial glass. Perhaps that’s why Copper & ...