Title:

Cardamaro

Description:

Cardamaro is a digestif amaro based on Piemontese Moscato wine flavoured with botanicals – most notably Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), a thistle-like plant after which this amaro is named, that is also known as ’artichoke thistle’, ’cardone’ or ’cardoni’. (Cardamaro has nothing to do with cardamom.)

Other ingredients in the seventh generation recipe include St. Benedict’s thistle (Cnicus benedictus), also known as ’blessed thistle’, ginger, other botanicals and sugar. The various aromatic herbs are individually macerated in neutral alcohol and these infusions blended with Moscato wine and sugar (170 g/l). Cardamaro is rested in oak tanks for at least six months prior to bottling.

This aperitif can be categorised as an aromatized wine and or an amaro – it is both. It is also believed to contain wormwood, in which case it can also be considered a vermouth. However, its foremost character is an amaro – hence both our categorisation and its positioning in most liquor stores.

Brewery or Distillery:

Giovanni Bosca

Size:

750 mL

Barcode:

8003360800756

Alcohol Percent:

Type of Alcohol:

Liqueur - Amaro

Date Added:

2018-06-08 12:36:30

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