Appearance: Pale translucent amber-gold. Aroma: Orange petals and peel, wildflowers, honeycomb, fresh aromatic herbs and flowers (lavender, lemon thyme, jasmine, honeysuckle, clove). Flavour and Texture: Citrus (lemon and orange) with honey, red cherries, vanilla pods, a hint of peppermint and a little liquorice. It expands into spicy notes (clove, saffron, sweet cinnamon, mild chilli), root extracts and more honey with a warming and comforting texture. The mouth-feel is heavy and syrupy but not cloying and it rolls off from the sweet notes into a demi-sec and slightly bitter finish, with notes of chincona, gentian and wormwood. There's an elusive note of lavender and violets as well. A very complete and balanced amaro. When tasted at room temperature (as I did for this review) it is quite sweet and mildly hot with a familial resemblance to Montenegro, but lighter, a tad sweeter and once you get to understand it, more floral in character. However on the Caffo website they recommend chilling this to -20 degrees Celsius and taking it in a glass that has been well chilled in the freezer. It certainly works great this way, as chilling mutes the sweetness and intensifies the herbal and orange notes significantly. It also works very well as a mixer and you could substitute this for Montenegro in any cocktail in which that liqueur has become your "secret weapon" and it would up the ante and leave them guessing all over again. It's a great amaro and like other reviewers here I'm amazed that this does not have a higher profile. Note: Originally I rated this 90/100 but after finishing the bottle (which took a few months), and having by then tried many other amari, I decided to downgrade the rating to 88/100. It's still excellent stuff and highly recommended. "Excellent" : 88/100 (4.5 stars)