This Amaro is a luminous shade of dark brown with a golden green rim. The nose is broad & elegant, full of enticing aromas of orange peel, rhubarb, mint, gentian, aloe, cinchona bark, walnut, liquorice, dried prunes, roasted coffee beans & medicinal herbs. On the palate it is soft & perfectly balanced, round & moderately warm; it boasts a long progression of taste in which notes of roasted coffee & liquorice stick are exalted, embellished with refined balsamic echoes. This Amaro is a product of the Zarri family tradition & follows a recipe that has been kept in the archives of the Villa Zarri cellars for half a century. This liqueur is made with cold alcohol infusions of 28 precious herbs & aromatic roots, the tastes from which are bitter & elegant. These include quassia, rhubarb, wormwood, Colombo, liquorice, mint, myrtle-leafed bitter orange, gentian, bitter & sweet orange peel, & many others. The extract obtained is then left to stand for several months in a steel container until it reaches the 35 per cent alcohol volume at which it is consumed. At this point, it is ready to be filtered & bottled.