Tuaca Tuoni & Canepa Italy Liqueur 375ml / Half Bottle
Thick, oily entry, sweet with some spicy dryness, with the citrus playing off the vanilla which tingles and coats the tongue with a nice spicy mix of flavor. Cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, bitter orange and some other spices provide and interesting heat and dryness to end the finish, successfully avoiding the tendency towards a cloying ending seen with so many other liqueurs of a similar profile.
Tuaca is based on a 15th Century Renaissance formula for a brandy-based liqueur created for a nobleman of the Medici family and ruler of Florence Lorenzo the Great. Revived in 1938, it gained popularity with American serviceman after the war and was then exported to the United States and adopted by bartenders here.
This liqueur is an interesting mix of 3-10 year old brandy from the Emilia Romagna of Italy (one of 4 brandy regions), a blend of spices and fruit (lemons,oranges ,etc.,), and about 2.5% sugar dissolved in alcohol to finish out the recipe.
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