Sunday, December 4, 2011

Spirit Sunday - This week Pisa Liqueur


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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