Not quite as good as the Jade line of reverse-engineered absinthe(s)but, at much less cost, it is absolutely a bargain. A definite step up from nonsense like Absente, Vieux Carre, La Fee and so forth. People want to insist that this is nothing like the original but it is and you just cannot argue with this stuff being produced from the same recipe minus all of that time in the bottle which is where the differences come from... So unless you have a time machine or some new high technology way to age absinthe 100 or more years, this is what you get...and it's good ! Sainte`