Calabria has been world renowned for the production of licorice, the root of the Glycyrrhiza glabra plant. This root yields a product sweet and earthy. Most Americans think of Anise as the flavor when eating licorice, but this flavor is vastly different than what the actual licorice root tastes like. Thankfully, the Calabrian Distilleria Caffo gives us this great example of real licorice. Enjoy as a modifier in an old fashioned or with soda. Salute!
Made with brandy and oranges from southern Italy, this orange liqueur is rich and authentic, with orange peel and blossom aromas and flavors as well as a long, vanilla-forward finish. A flicker of alcohol-derived heat balances out the sweetness. Savor it as a delicious finish to a meal or use it as a versatile cocktail mixer.
While deep red in hue, Caffo’s Mezzodi is lighter and easier than many comparable aperitivi. Soft and sweet with a pleasant, long finish.
This Sambuca is not nearly as cloying as some others and has a clean, smooth finish.
Limuni, the South Limoncello is made from an alcoholic lemon peels untreated, matured under the warm sun of Calabria. Lemons, from farms located near the Distillery Gruner, are processed the same day of collection. To get the infusion of Limuni is used only the most aromatic of the fruit that is the yellow part of the rind (epicarp) infused in neutral alcohol.
The expert distillers at Caffo produced this all-natural Amaretto from 100% real Sicilian almonds, and macerated it in an herbal infusion. It’s like marzipan in a glass
Product symbol Distillery Gruner is the Vecchio Amaro Cape, herbal liquor Calabria, the result of an ancient recipe from Calabria then revised and improved by the experience gained by four generations of the family Gruner. Il Vecchio Amaro Cape encapsulates the active ingredients of many healing herbs, flowers, fruits and roots of generous land of Calabria, infusions in fine spirit, to aid digestion and give a pleasant feeling of well-being. Among the 29 herbs that make up the infusion we remember, for their tonicodigestive, some are very common in Calabria as bitter orange, sweet orange, licorice, tangerine, chamomile and juniper. His gentle taste and aroma is well suited even the most delicate palates not accustomed to Amarissimi and remember that according to the best tradition of Calabria, should be drunk chilled (at -20 ° C. in the characteristic shorts Cape) to enhance the characteristics of the particular herbs that compose it. Il Vecchio Amaro Cape, is now among the most popular bitters and sold in Italy and has the distinction of being the first bitter to have been frozen by the proposed slogan launched by as early as the 70s when consumption was mainly summer and was distributed only in Calabria. In 2010 the Old Amaro Cape was the only bitter Italian awarded the gold medal at the world competition in Brussels.
This pure, smooth grappa is distilled from grape skins from ancient Greek varietals that were brought to southern Italy centuries ago. Sweet and aromatic, with soft notes of fruit and spice, this is an excellent representation of Calabrian grappa, historically known as Magna Grecia.