Centerba Storica

• Botanical liqueur produced by Enrico Toro Distillery in Tocco da Casauria, Italy
• Features a proprietary recipe of herbs, spices, and other botanicals predominantly hand-picked with dispensation in nearby Maiella National Park
• Recipe includes several species of mint endemic to the Apennine Mountains of Central Italy
• Base spirit distilled from wheat
• Botanicals are dried and cold-macerated together in alcohol for approximately 2 months
• Sweetened with Italian acacia honey and chill filtered
• Aromas of spring onion, vanilla orchid, licorice candy, mint, and lemon zest lead to a pleasant bite on the palate highlighting star anise, black cardamom, white pepper, cinnamon, licorice root, and spearmint
• 50% ABV

Centerba liqueur—from the Latin centum herbora meaning “hundreds of herbs”—has monastic origins dating back to the thirteenth century, and local variations abound in Italy’s Alpine and Apennine regions. The best-known version, however, is Enrico Toro Distillery’s Centerba Toro Forte, launched in 1817. Enrico Toro has now tweaked its celebrated recipe (whose botanical makeup is kept quite secret, prepared in private by only one family member for seven generations), sweetening it with honey and lowering the proof for a versatile liqueur that can be enjoyed in cocktails as an intuitive Chartreuse substitute or in a myriad of culinary applications.