1 BOTTLE X 50cl

30% vol.

This amaro is born from the juicy Sicilian oranges, the result of a skilful infusion process between the bitter orange peel and a precious mix of bittering herbs which gives Scoccia its characteristic round and persistent flavor on the palate.

TASTE
The essence of the bitter orange evokes the taste of the volcanic earth where the trees from which we collect the best fruits grow in the warm Sicilian sun to create a perfectly balanced product, with a citrus scent and aftertaste.

TASTING
It is recommended to serve it frozen as a digestive, or mix it to make cocktails or use it at room temperature to flavor desserts, ice cream and fruit.

A HISTORY 12 CENTURIES LONG
The recipe for the amaro scoccia has its roots in a past in which our ancestors cultivated orange groves on the plain of Catania as sharecroppers.

Our grandparents tell of a secret recipe handed down by Benedictine monks who, with painstaking perfection, created bitters and liqueurs according to an ancient infusion process handed down over the centuries by industrious Basilian monks who resided in a monastery most likely built towards the end of the 9th century on the slopes of the volcano and later inhabited by Benedictine monks.
The pristine landscape in which the monastery once stood, and the luxuriant and fertile wooded area that surrounded it, meant that the orange-based recipe, which has come down to us today, was enriched with the flavors and aromas present on Etna, giving the amaro a unique taste in which the delicacy of the orange marries with the decisive notes of the lava soil.

To keep this tradition intact and preserve the smells and flavors of our territory, we have followed the invisible thread of TIME that takes us back to our origins and to the land that our grandparents cultivated with devotion.
From this recipe comes a product with a round and persistent taste, characterized by the strong notes of bitter orange peel and bittering herbs, infused through innovative production processes that keep all the flavors and characteristics of the ingredients used unchanged.

RECIPE
The queen of Scoccia's recipe is precisely the zest of the bitter orange, or Citrus Aurantium, imported into Sicily after the year 1000 by the Arabs.

The stories around citrus fruits and their origins link the lands of the Far East to the Mediterranean: it seems in fact that the fruit, also known as melangolo, was an ancient hybrid probably between pomelo and mandarin native to Southeast Asia.

According to the most reliable historical reconstruction it seems that thanks to the Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean, to the Crusades and, finally, to the discovery of America, this fruit was spread from the slopes of the Himalayas to California, passing through Sicily.

The fragrant peel of the freshly peeled bitter orange is full of notes that evoke the land of Sicily and is mainly used for the extraction of essential oils which also boast particular medicinal properties or for the preparation of alcoholic beverages.

The recipe handed down to us by our ancestors enriches the infusion of peels with a mix of precious freshly picked bitter herbs which give the amaro Scoccia an elegant, characteristic flavor that lingers in the mouth for a long time.

ORANGES AND MANDALAS
Telling a magical story
The idea of the "scoccia" brand comes from an inspiration linked to the mysterious world of the mandala, and contains within it, through a sophisticated game of concentric figures, the orange blossom flower.

The spherical shape and sunny color of the Sicilian orange inspired our label: born from the combination of the passion of red and the radiance of yellow, skilfully mixed in a perfectly balanced chromatic mix between the two primary colors. The intersection of the fragrant concentric circles of orange blossom evokes the transition from flower to fruit, giving life to the orange, surmounted by its characteristic Mediterranean leaf.