Rapa Giovanni Liquore di Noci Ratafia' di Andorno ReasonableCellar2025 Côte Blonde

Côte Blonde

Crisp on the palate with tropical fruits

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After just smelling this for the first time

Rapa Giovanni Liquore di Noci Ratafia' di Andorno ReasonableCellar2025 Côte BlondeThe walnuts go into the alcohol on the night of June 24th, still green, still wrapped in their husks. That's the tradition in Andorno Micca, a village in the Valle Cervo above Biella in Piedmont, where the nuns of the Monastero di Santa Maria della Sala were already making ratafi back in the 1600s. Giovanni Rapa founded his liquorificio in the village in 1880, and it has been turning out the same liqueur ever since. The green walnuts macerate for