Bottega Raspberry Crema di Lamponie Panna

Bottega is a family distillery in the Veneto, where Andrea Bottega began tending vines near Refrontolo as far back as 1635 and Aldo Bottega founded the modern Distilleria Bottega at Bibano in 1977, the house that pioneered single varietal grappa. This raspberry cream liqueur is built on that grappa heritage: intense red raspberries, sweet with a slight acidic edge, are macerated in alcohol for several days and the fruit is then blended into dairy cream, bottled at a soft 15%.

The nose is full of raspberry, milk and fresh cream, the palate sweet and silky with ripe raspberry over sweet milk. As a cream emulsion it brings fruit flavour, dairy body and a pale pink colour to a glass, which makes it a dessert and body ingredient: pour it chilled over panna cotta, biscuits or ice cream, shake it into a fruity dessert martini, or layer it short and cold. Being a dairy product, keep it chilled once opened and use it within a few months.