The Amarena cherry is a cousin of the Marasca cherry, but here the name of the cultivar is being used just because marketing liked the sound of it. But the maraschino has been steady since the late 1800s, and its notes of candied cherries and marzipan make it a good choice to balance the tartness in a whiskey-based Kentucky Flyer.

My last trip to the Dalmatian coast was already a few summers ago, so it’s about time I start writing about it!

Pelinkovac is consumed chilled with a slice of lemon, or with lemon juice, or, for those who really like sugar and bitterness, mixed with tonic (the Croatian version of the BeTon cocktail).

The reason is simple: It adds a delicately sweet and fruity note of cherry without being overly sweet.With around 800,000 liters sold per year (still in 2017) Maraska’s Cosmopolitan vodka is also the second best-selling vodka on the Croatian market behind Badel’s Vigor vodka. For maraschino, just check out this list, from which the Aviation and the Last Word are the best known. The distillery is based in Denver, Colorado, and is the first distillery in 50 years to use a three-chamber still. The last process consists in transforming the distillate in liqueur by adding a simple syrup of water and sugar lowering the ABV to 32%. A leaf distillate is produced by chopping cherry leaves (the main ingredient), stems, and bark, macerating them in an alcoholic solution for up to 60 days, then distilling the macerate in a copper pot still so that the resulting distillate contains 55-65% alcohol.

Spa, Luca Guidobaldi, Il Commento, Il Diritto industriale, Bimestrale di dottrina e giurisprudenza sulle creazioni intellettuali e sulla concorrenza, 1/2015, p. Taste: Very sweet (though maybe less so than Maraska), a mix of tree branch and denatured alcohol, yet not totally unpleasant. Next, the distillates are blended and remain in storage tanks first to rest (the alcohol content at this stage is around 61-64%), then to wait until demand requires bottling a new batch (e. After the destruction of Zadar during World War II, Maraska distillery regrew the liqueur's infamy and brought back the region's most famous creation. Pour the rakija, Amaro, cherry brandy liqueur, pineapple juice, and lemon juice into a shaker filled with ice cubes.It’s that cherry that gives the liqueur its name and flavor, as well as its pronunciation: mar-uh-SKEE-no. Being made in Zagreb, Badel’s Pelinkovac tops the sales in Central Croatia and Slavonia, whereas in Dalmatia it’s Maraska’s version – just a matter of local pride. Our luxury hotel barge holidays include fruit liqueur tastings – experience the world’s finest orange liqueurs for yourself while you gently cruise down the French rivers.

It's made in a similar method to brandy, but the pits (stones) of the marasca cherries are included along with the fruit. Luxardo has become the gold standard of maraschino liqueurs, so much so that it’s uncommon to see a bar without the distinctive straw-encased bottle on a shelf. This producer of fruit liqueurs, based in Turin, Italy, takes the prize for the most alluring marasca cherry aromatics. After a certain number of days, the macerate may be distilled – I see some steel tanks, a couple of small copper pot stills and a copper column still in a corner of the room. Cointreau ranks among the world’s most famous after dinner tipples and Grand Marnier isn’t too far behind.

Part of that might be that its base distillate comes from molasses, as well as its residual sweetness from beet sugar. The archive provides an unprecedented resource for historians and archivists from the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797 up until the transition of Zadar to Yugoslav sovereignty in 1947, covering the various periods of Austrian, French and Italian domination. The slight almond flavour of De Kuyper Cherry Brandy Liqueur is created by crushing cherry kernels and adding them to the spirit.