Most people can't name a single botanical in their amaro. Here's what's actually in the bottle — and why it matters. There is a moment, usually early in your relationship with amaro, when someone tells you the bottle contains twenty, thirty, sometimes forty different botanical ingredients. The reaction is almost always the same: disbelief, followed by the uncomfortable realisation that you couldn't name more than one or two. The herbs are there. You're just not hearing them s

The aperitivo hour wasn't designed around pleasure. It was designed around medicine. Two centuries later, the ritual outlived its original purpose — and became something more interesting. In 1786, a winemaker named Antonio Benedetto Carpano walked into his shop in Turin and began infusing wine with herbs, spices, and botanical extracts. He sold the result as a tonic. The instructions were simple: drink a small glass before eating to stimulate digestion and prepare the stomach

A long time ago, shepherds from Abruzzo noticed that sheep, once satiated after grazing, went to lick some particular roots continuously....

1989, Cividale del Friuli, Pietro Domenis began practicing the art of distilling, thanks to his father who gave him a still as a gift....

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Today we are in Piedmont in the small town of Acqui Terme where Amaro Gamondi has been rooted for more than 100 years. Created in from...

The label of this Amaro blew me away. While surfing online, I happened upon the presentation site of this product and was enraptured by...

In talking about this amaro it is proper to start from its history, which is characterized by great audacity and determination. In...