Gran Classico Bitter is a bitter apéritif liqueur created following the "Italian Bitter of Turin" recipe dating from the 1860s, originally produced in Turin, Italy under the name Torino Gran Classico. The recipe was purchased in 1925 by the small Swiss distillery E. Luginbühl, and a version has been produced for mostly local consumption ever since. Tempus Fugit developed Gran Classico by reverting to the original recipe: a maceration of 25 aromatic herbs and roots including wormwood, gentian, bitter orange peel, rhubarb, and hyssop — the maceration also creates a naturally attractive golden-amber color, with no additional coloring added.
Tasting Notes: A multi-faceted bitter-sweetness of orange peel, gentian root, and wormwood mingled with rhubarb and vanilla; the viscosity immediately highlights the sweet rhubarb, then bitter gentian and orange peel blend with wormwood, vanilla, and resiny notes — a deep, layered, lingering finish that balances and alternates between sweet and bitter.
How to Use: Stands alone on ice or with seltzer — and has amazing range as a modifier, offering the cocktailian culture a more complex, non-red alternative bitter for the world-famous Negroni.
ABV: 28% (56 Proof)
