Bordiga Aperitivo, Italy (16%, 75cl) flat

Bordiga Aperitivo, Italy (16%, 75cl) flatBordigas Artisenal Aperitivo is packed with aromatic herbs, citrus (mostly bitter orange peel) and rhubarb (Chinese rhubarb root). Moderately bitter and moderately sweet. All of Bordigas products are made in their own distillery an hour south of Turin, in the village of Cuneo, close to the Occitan Alps where the conditions for the growth of botanicals filled with essentials oils are ideal.

but we have a very limited amount

when Benedictine monks entrusted Salvatore Averna with their centuries-old herbal recipe - a sacred alchemy of Sicilian sun and soil

The berries are soaked in pure alcohol to extract their full flavor

this elixir is made from a secret blend of 130 plants

and recyclable packaging

A parcel of first fill Bourbon barrels containing whisky from the now closed Imperial Distillery had sat in our sample library for some years

Natural and biodynamic

The nose reveals balsamic aromas of fennel

with tonic and in cocktails

Family owned

with an evaporation loss of over 62%

Not that it matters much