Merkki: Distillerie Franciacorta

This liqueur, taken straight from Nature, is made from liquorice root extract which grows in Calabria, and held by connoisseurs to be the best in the world. The masterly use of age old recipes has transformed it into a “new” liquor, an excellent digestive, also appraised as a thirst-quencher, refreshing drink or aperitif.

Liquorice is a plant which has been known and appreciated for thousands of years for its beneficial properties. It was used in Ancient Egypt and China for medicinal purposes and mention is made of it in Medical literature of Ancient Greece and the Middle East, even Buddha called it “Elixir of life which gives beauty”.

Over the centuries, up to our day and age, liquorice has always been considered as synonymous of well-being and pleasure. Eclisse is made using as main ingredient Glycyrrhiza Glabra extract, a plant which grows only in one particular area in Calabria. The techniques used to extract the essence and the concentration and drying processes adopted, make it an incomparable product, with its sweet well balanced flavour.