Spirits And Liqueurs Flashcards
Amaro
3 Facts
• Italian for “bitter”
• A bittersweet herbal liquor
• A digestive
Amaretto
3 Facts
Top Brand
• Italian for ”a little bitter”
• A sweet almond-flavored liquor
• Originated in Lombardy
• Disaronno
Aperol
2 Facts
• Orange-flavored Amaro
• Lower alcohol and less bitterness than Campari
Baileys
3 Facts
• From Dublin, Ireland
• Whiskey- based chocolate cream liquor emulsifies together with vegetable oil
• Taste: sweet and milky with notes of vanilla and chocolate
Chambord
3 Facts
• From Loire Valley
• Raspberry-flavored brandy-based liquor
• Made with Cognac
Drambuie
4 Ingredients
• Scotch Whiskey
• Heather Honey: from heather flowers of heather plant. Slightly bitter / Notes of salt
• Spices
• Herbs
Fernet Branco
4 Facts
• A bitter Italian Amaro, originally from Milan
• Made from a distilled grape spirit and
• 27 herbals and spices
• Tastes like a “bitter root-beer
Bombay Sapphire
3 Facts
Tanqueray
3 Facts
Beefeater
2 Facts
Bombay Sapphire: Light aromatics and delicate. “Intro gin” that turned a whole generation of vodka drinkers into gin drinkers in the 90s
Tanqueray: More fragrance/body than Bombay Sapphire. Pine, menthol, corriander, citrus, juniper. Earthy
Beefeater: Biggest nose: pine, juniper, lemon
Palate: warm spice and pine