Sambuca Molinari

       Sambuca Molinari

Producer               : Molinari, 

                               Civitavecchia - Italy
Category               : Liquor
Sub Category        : Sambuca
Alcohol Content    : 40%
Common Serve      : Straiht-Up, Ice, 

                                Flaming, 
                                Mix With Coke

Sambuca is an Italian Anis Liqueur (star anise and green anise) with 38% vol which also contains liuorices essence of roses as well as other herbs and spices.

The name Sambuca originates from word “Sambuco” a boats type of the saracem which was used to import spices from the orient during the mediaeval times.

Sambuca  normally served with coffee beans   is called “con la mosca” (with a fly). In former coffee was produced by Italian farmers and stored in open barrels in their cellar. Flies got attracted by the sweetness of the liqueur and got stuck on the sticky surface. When the farmer skimmed some Sambuca mostly some flies got into the glasses. The coffee beans symbolize the flies.

Note

Saracen: designated in late ancient times (2 to 4 century) a first one or more nomad tribes of the Sinai  Penisula. This expression was extended gradually in the meaning Arab trunks of the before Islamic time and then in the course the Islamic expression to the Islamic people absolutely. 

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