++Pear in a Bottle++

When we were home for Thanksgiving my dad gave us a bottle of pear brandy that he had been holding onto for something like 30 years(!?). We cracked it open and it was quite the tasty treat. Apparently this is not that common anymore but it used to be that they would put the bottle on the pear tree branch and let the pear grow inside the bottle. I kid you not.

This is the box it came in. Fancy yet retro at the same time.