Amorgion Psimeni 50ml
£6.00
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Amorgion Psimeni 50ml
£6.00
Description
Tsipouro and honey are here blended at the start of the procedure and heated together. Less alcoholic, a lighter version of the classic rakomelo but very smooth and pleasant, perhaps more feminine, too.
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ABV
20.0%
Producer
Amorgion is a family distillery from the small Cycladic island of Amorgos, founded by Antonis Vekris in the early 2000s and based in Katapola. The starting point was a local remedy known as psimeni raki (or vrastari) — grape-pomace raki boiled with honey, cinnamon and cloves, traditionally used on the island both to soothe a sore throat and to welcome guests, including at the island's Monastery of Panagia Chozoviotissa. Amorgion built its range around that tradition, sweetening its grape distillate with honey and a mix of eight local herbs rather than sugar, and later extended the same approach to other Amorgos ingredients such as prickly pear.