Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge Aperitif Cutwater Rye with real structure for cellaring

with real structure for cellaring

then finished with organic cane sugar

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

and transport of alcohol was strictly prohibited

over ice with fresh fruit

Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge Aperitif Cutwater Rye with real structure for cellaringIn 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.