Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge Aperitif Cutwater Rye lemon peel

lemon peel

then finished with organic cane sugar

The first in our Private Release Series is our Barrell Private Release Rum

and a hint of smoke — distinctive enough that tasters compare it simultaneously to Jamaican rum and rhum agricole without being quite either

with dried fruit

Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge Aperitif Cutwater Rye lemon peelIn 1872, a merchant named Louis Napoleon Mattei named his aperitif wine after his native Cap Corse, a peninsula of Corsica that juts northward into the Mediterranean. Among the most famous of French Quinquina, enjoyed for generations by visitors and residents of the island of Corsica. It is composed of a variety of local and exotic spices, walnuts and cinchona bark (quinine) on a base of Corsican Muscat and Vermentinu mistelles.