As product names go, Amaricano — an American amaro — is fairly genius.
The brainchild of Seattle-based Quick Penny Spirits, the corporate produces two amari impressed by Italian recipes — one darkish, one a vivid shade of yellow. Each merchandise help girls in enterprise, with 3% of revenues donated to woman-focused nonprofits.
So the charitable goals and the identify are nice, however what’s within the bottles? Let’s give these two expressions a attempt.
Each are 60 proof.
Amaricano Amaro – “Impressed by Italian custom, Amaricano balances wealthy and herbaceous tones for a breathtakingly daring expertise. Distilled West Coast grapes body this lush amaro, brimming with cocoa nibs, Rainier cherries, Yakima hops, and regionally foraged truffles sure with a bevy of botanicals.” Truffles, you say!? Numerous gentian and a black cherry undertone offers the nostril a wealthy, Fernet-like high quality from the beginning. Licorice and darkish chocolate play supporting roles. The palate is instantly bitter-forward, however these cherries rapidly come to life. Drenched in darkish chocolate, there’s sufficient sweetness right here to rapidly mood the tougher, extra bitter edge, turning barely raisiny and pruny because the end emerges. Once more, a reprise of chocolate right here as issues get sweeter, alongside some cinnamon, brown sugar, and a drop of vanilla. Actually fairly pretty, though I by no means received even a touch of truffle. A- / $52
Americano Bianca -Made with 45 botanicals, together with saffron, hops, and black truffles once more. There’s an enormous chamomile tea observe on the nostril right here, nearly to the exclusion of all the things else. The saffron emerges with time, however the natural tea character is by far the driving pressure. Significantly sweeter and fewer bitter (and stickier) than the usual amaro, right here we make a journey by the backyard, mild notes of golden raisins, mandarin oranges, and bergamot tempering a hefty fragrance character the perfect they will. Ample saffron on the end evokes a much less candy model of Strega, for which this might simply function a much less aggressive substitute. B+ / $52
Amaricano Amaro
$52
