Fattorie Cilentane Akropolis Limoncello (70CL, 25% Vol.)

Fattorie Cilentane Akropolis Limoncello (70CL, 25% Vol.)

It is a liqueur obtained from the infusion of freshly picked and untreated lemons. A product of the Italian tradition which has its origins in the early 1900s.

The History of Limoncello

Limoncello was born at the beginning of the 1900s, in a small guesthouse on the Isola Azzurra, where Mrs. Maria Antonia Farace took care of a lush garden of lemons and oranges. After the war, his nephew opened a restaurant business right near Axel Munte's villa. The specialty of that bar was the lemon liqueur made with grandmother's ancient recipe. In 1988, his son Massimo Canale in turn started a small artisanal production of limoncello, registering the brand. But in reality, even in Sorrento and Amalfi, legends and stories about the production of the traditional yellow liqueur abound. On the coast, for example, the story goes that the great Sorrento families, at the beginning of the 1900s, never let their illustrious guests miss out on a taste of limoncello, made according to the traditional recipe. In Amalfi, there are those who even claim that the liqueur has very ancient origins, almost linked to the cultivation of lemon. However, as often happens in these circumstances, the truth is nebulous and the hypotheses are many and suggestive. Some claim that limoncello was used by fishermen and farmers in the morning to combat the cold, already at the time of the Saracen invasion. Others, however, believe that the recipe was born inside a monastic convent to delight the friars between one prayer and another. Perhaps we will never know the truth. But beyond purely parochial issues, the traditional yellow liqueur has been crossing borders for decades, conquering markets all over the world. Bottles of limoncello are present on the shelves of overseas markets, and important new commercial scenarios are developing on Asian markets. Limoncello, therefore, really risks becoming a world-class product on a par with Bitter or Amaretto. And to defend themselves from imitations, measures were also taken, reserving the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) designation for the production of the characteristic Sorrento "oval". The original Sorrento lemon must be produced in one of the municipalities in the area from Vico Equense to Massa Lubrense and on the island of Capri.