This
week – Pisa Liqueur ($32)
Recently
I've been on a personal mission to try more of the various
manifestations of almond based products, and it was with this in mind
I reached out and picked up Pisa Liqueur. But before I launch into
the smells/tastes and so forth, I must spend a moment admiring the
bottle.
Like
the famous landmark of Pisa Liqueur's home city, the bottle is on a,
well, lean. It slants about 5 degrees off the vertical in a way that
makes you think perhaps you've drunk more than you though you had.
Honestly, get yourself to a bottle shop just for a look at the
bottle.
Admittedly
the smell isn't great. I've found a real dislocation between what I
understand the flavour of almonds to be and what almond-flavoured
things actually are. The drink's website suggest it be drunk over ice
or slightly warmed; I recommend over ice.
Thankfully
it drinks a lot smoother than you would think it might, and I could
enjoy two small glasses before I got that 'full-of-sweet-things'
feeling that I get with most dessert/sweet drinks. At 24% it is a
little heavier than a conventional liqueur, but it's also a little
syrupy, so you don't really notice.
The
artificial almond seems to dominate the three flavours the drink is
supposed to have. The bottle claims Pisa's distilled with hazelnut
and pistachio flavours as well, but I found them both drowned out by
the almost liquorice strength of the almond. The bottle (genius) and
the colour (beautiful) of the spirit rate 3.5 stars, but...
Pisa
Liqueur rates 2.25 stars.
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