Aperol Aperitivo Liqueur

Detailed Description

Aperol Aperitivo An orange/red coloured Italian aperitif, created in 1919, and made of an infusion of rhubarb, cinchona (the tree from which quinine comes), gentian and several other herbs.

Aperol Aperitivo Liqueur Tasting Notes

Nose: Pink grapefruit and orange zest with strawberry jelly.

Palate: Hardly bitter at all, more like a zesty orange cordial with faint bitterness. Flavours of zesty orange marmalade and pink grapefruit predominate.

Finish: Short finish, zesty orange and grapefruit with strawberry and lingering light bitter rootyness.

Distillery Information

The Barbieri Company was established in 1891 by Giuseppe Barbieri in Padua, Italy to produce and market a wide range of liqueurs. The company’s most famous and enduring product, Aperol, was especially created in 1919 by his two sons, Luigi and Silvio for Padua International Fair, a large exhibition attracting international visitors held in the their home. Silvio Barbieri named Aperol after the French word for aperitif, ‘apéro’, which he had learnt on a recent trip to France and seemed appropriate for their new bitter-sweet liqueur.