Luxardo Maraschino is aged for two years in white Finnish ashwood vats before being put in bottles encased in hand-plaited straw - originally to make transportation...
I plan to look for Luxardo every time I go into a bar, and when I find it, I'll taste it. I saw it in so many recipes that I bought a bottle. I think it's nasty. My wife thinks it's disgusting. So I keep wondering if I might possibly have gotten a bad bottle. But I'm not going to invest in a second one to find out!
Couldn't agree more Paul (and Mrs. Paul). Both times I've sampled it (two separate bottles) it's tasted very artificial and only marginally like cherries. For recipes calling for Maraschino liqueur I've recently been subbing Rossio--a Portugese "licor de ginja"--with good results. It's brandy-based though, so I would love to find a closer alternative but am hesitant to invest in a different Maraschino without first tasting it.
unique flavor profile, i can sip this while watching a movie !
was def. expecting luxardo cherries taste but none the less delightful, should hold it self very well on any cocktail.
I was surprised by the flavor of this. I had expected some variation of standard maraschino cherry that you get from the jars at a grocery store. I don't detect that flavor at all - instead it's lychee that jumps out at me, and perhaps a bit of almond. It's also quite a bit stronger than I would have anticipated.
This isn't something that I'd drink on its own, but I bought it with the intention to use it as a mixer. It adds a noticeable flourish to drinks like Archibald's Last Memory.
I love cherries/almonds and I don’t seem to be able to taste any of the notes suggested, it tastes like a vodka syrup. I bought this elsewhere online. Would I have a “fake” one?