Cardamaro is the one and only amaro based on wine and Nizza Monferrato Cardoon. Recreated from the ancient recipe of Bosca’s herbalist wine-blender, this bitter liqueur has countless health-giving properties taken from the cardoon. With its pleasantly bitter taste it’s perfect to side any occasion particularly after a good meal.

Cardamaro is prepared by wine base infusion of Nizza Monferrato cardoon (Cynara Cardunculus var altilis), blessed cardoon (Cardus Benedictus), milk cardoon (Sylbym Marianum) and other selected herbs such as calumba, juniper, Gentiana Lutea berries, cloves, liquorice root, cardamom, lemon peel and marjoram cultivated in Piedmont.

Rachele Torlasco Bosca, an distinguished member of the Bosca family, a scholar and connoisseur of the beneficial qualities of many wild plants, spent her life in the search of the perfect product based on herbs, which contained the quality to invigorate the body and spirit. It is said that in the 50’s, during a dinner, she was particularly impressed by the tales on the extraordinary benefits towards liver stimulation and digestion of Nizza Monferrato cardoon. The day after she began her studies to create a recipe based on this vegetable, with alcohol maceration together with some herbs.

Over the following years, Bosca’s herbalists have refined the recipe, integrating it with the constant addition of medicinal herbs and with the intent of finding the perfect recipe. The final formula was defined when it was discovered that the cardoon and 23 other herbs, expertly dosed through a secret recipe, when handled through a wine-based process would lead to the best compendium: this was the genesis Cardamaro, the Wine Bitter, the only bitter based on cardoon.

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