Cardamaro Amaro

Other ingredients in the seventh generation recipe include St. Benedict's thistle (Cnicus benedictus), also known as ‘blessed thistle’, ginger, other botanicals and sugar. The various aromatic herbs are individually macerated in neutral alcohol and these infusions blended with Moscato wine and sugar (170 g/l). Cardamaro is rested in oak tanks for at least six months prior to bottling.

This aperitif can be categorised as an ‘aromatized wine’ and or an ‘amaro’ – it is both. It is also believed to contain wormwood, in which case it can also be considered a vermouth. However, its foremost character is as an amaro – hence both our categorisation and its positioning in most liquor stores. View less