Tasting Notes: Tobacco color with brick red shades, opaque, expressive.It offers aromas of nearly stewed ripe fruit and sultana, with scents of gentian, rhubarb, sandalwood and honey.Dry, bitter, warm. Its tannic structure is powerful: somewhat drying to the palate, it is countered by intense salivation at the side walls of the mouth. Hard notes due to acids and tannins are dominant. Intense aroma of spices, rhubarb, sandalwood. Tonic persistence is also intense.
From Varnelli’s long herbal experience this intriguing amaro is obtained from a decoction of herbs, roots and barks which are prepared over a wood fire. Only pure honey is used to sweeten this blend.