Alcohol strength: 30% alc vol.

Size: 700ml - 750ml

Packing: 6 x crt.

Shelf life: indefinite

Description

Luxardo's second historical speciality after Maraschino Originale. It is a liqueur of marasca cherries (a sour cherry variety exclusively cultivated by Luxardo) - a variant of cherry brandy. It is obtained by the infusion of fermented marasca juice, matured for two years in oak vats. Luxardo cherry liqueur was renamed with the curious name of Sangue Morlacco (Morlacco blood) by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1919, at the time of the Fiume military expedition, due to its dark red colour (furthermore, the name "Morlacco" is derived from the name of a proud people of the Dalmatian hinterland).

Characteristics

• Colour: dark red
• Aroma: intense, inebriating perfume of marasca
• Taste: good body, very rounded on the palate.Quite different from normal cherry-brandies, both through the intensity of the cherry's typical taste (here decidedly enhanced), and through the surprising expansion of the after-taste, which makes it priceless when combined with pure chocolate.

Packaging

Round personalized bottle, with black capsule; the label shows D'Annunzio's signature in connection with the liqueur's 'baptism'. The back label contains some serving suggestions and the legal wordings.

Serving suggestions

Neat, at room temperature or with ice, as after dinner drink or meditation liqueur. In mixed drinks, in several coded international cocktails using cherry-brandy as an ingredient: Singapore Sling, Yale, Hollander Pousse Café, Cherry-brandy flip, Cherry Cobbler , etc. With berry fruits (raspberries, bilberries, blackcurrants,etc.).

Recommended combination

With pure dark chocolate