Luxardo "Abano" Amaro Liqueur
(Italy)

Luxardo Amaro Abano originated in 1952. Amaro means “bitter,” and Abano is an old Roman spa in the Veneto region that has been active for the last 500 years. The label depicts the spa around the year 1600. The herbs in this amaro grow wild and are infused along with cardamom, cinnamon and bitter orange peel. Luxardo Amaro Abano is a medium bitter, extremely popular in Italy, and especially in the Veneto region, drunk straight after a meal with or without ice to help digestion.

Tasting Notes:

Colour: jet brown/black colour.

Aroma: first impressions are laced with herbaceous-botanical scents of 
orange peel, cardamom and baking spices such as cinnamon and nutmeg. 
Later sniffs encounter more narrowly focused herbal-earthy traces, 
especially roots and tubers.

Taste: entry features the moderately bitter taste of orange peel and 
cardamom as they tango on one’s tongue in a dance of seduction all the 
way through the mid palate and well into the aftertaste. While other 
notable amaros club you into strong bitterness, Luxardo has selected the 
middle road path in terms of bitterness to win the appreciation of women 
and men alike.