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Disaronno Amaretto

Name: Disaronno Amaretto 50ml
SKU: 108382
Price: 7.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Spirits · 50ml · 13%

$7.99each

What it tastes like

A classic amaretto with sweet almond flavour and a smooth finish.

Additional information

Spirits
Style: 50ml
Size: 13% ABV
Alcohol: 0.1 per bottle
Standard drinks

The story of Disaronno Amaretto

Disaronno comes from Saronno, a town in Lombardy. The story its makers tell starts in 1525, when the painter Bernardino Luini, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, was commissioned to paint a fresco of the Madonna of the Miracles in the town. He used a local innkeeper as his model, and she thanked him with a flask of amber liqueur. The Reina family later rediscovered her recipe and guarded it for generations, and in the early 1900s Domenico Reina opened a workshop in Saronno to produce and sell it.

Despite the almond flavour, Disaronno contains no almonds. The makers describe it as an infusion of apricot kernel oil with pure alcohol, burnt sugar and the essence of seventeen herbs and fruits. It is bottled at 28% alcohol. It was sold as Amaretto di Saronno until 2001, when it was renamed Disaronno Originale.

The taste is sweet almond with a smooth finish. This 50 ml miniature is a single-serve bottle, enough for one drink without opening a full bottle.

Serve it neat or over ice. The classic mixed drinks are the Disaronno Sour, made with fresh lemon juice, and the Godfather, which pairs it with whisky. A small measure also goes into hot chocolate.