In Milan, the Apertivo moment belongs to campari and its delicious bittersweet flavours. Campari is a closely guarded secret blend of 68 ingredients including herbs, plants, barks and seeds. Today only three people know the full recipe which takes over 1 month to prepare. It is a contemporary and charismatic classic. Its vibrant red colour, intense aroma and inspiring flavour, has always been a symbol of intrigue and pleasure, which unfurls itself into a captivating drinking experience.

A symbolic product of Distilleria Caffo is Vecchio Amaro del Capo, a Calabrese, herb based liqueur, the fruit of an ancient, Calabrese recipe further processed and improved with experience acquired over four generations of the Caffo family. Vecchio Amaro del Capo encloses the active principles of plenty of beneficial herbs, flowers, fruit and roots from the generous land in Calabria, infused in the finest alcohol, to aid digestion and give a feeling of wellbeing. Among the 29 medicinal herbs composing the infusions, we recall some of the most widespread in Calabria, due to their tonic-digestive properties, such as bitter orange, sweet orange, liquorice, mandarin, camomile and juniper. Its delicate and aromatic taste also adapts well to more delicate palates, not used to “Bitter drinks” and remember, as the best Calabrese tradition says, they should be drank frozen (at -20 degree celsius in small, characteristic “Capo” glasses) to emphasise the characteristics of the particular herbs composing them.