Liquore delle Sirene Canto Amaro hide-gift-message led by Pinot Noir with

led by Pinot Noir with a healthy dose of still red wine blended in to give it both its color and its berry character

14-24 days on skins in stainless steel tanks

These wines deserve to be better known than they are

Grasparossa’s tannin and acidity

Each 375ml bottle yields six cocktails of bartender-quality cocktails without the mixing

Liquore delle Sirene Canto Amaro hide-gift-message led by Pinot Noir withAn amaro made by one person, on Lake Garda, largely from botanicals gathered around the lake. Elisa Carta trained as a sommelier and an olive oil taster before turning herbalist, and Canto is built around botanicals from the lake and the slopes of Monte Baldo above it, lemon, thistle, rose hips, bitter and sweet orange, with a few well chosen travelers added, notably kina, vanilla and Timut pepper. Each botanical is infused on its own, then blended to