Cocktails with Liquore Strega
Liquore Strega is an Italian herbal liqueur flavoured with around 70 botanicals and coloured yellow with saffron.
ABV40%
Taste profile
Mint leads, backed by a coniferous fennel note, over a sweet, viscous body of layered herbs and spice.
How it's used
Reached for as a digestif and served neat, it also works as a spirit-strength herbal base or featured measure, or stirred in small amounts as an aromatic, colouring accent.
Substitutes for Liquore Strega
Hard to replace when its own minty, coniferous fennel-and-mint identity is the point of the drink; as a small accent, another spirit-strength herbal liqueur approximates the category, with sugar syrup covering the lost sweetness and body.
Description
Produced by Strega Alberti Benevento in Benevento, Italy, and bottled at 40% ABV, it is built on roughly 70 herbs and spices, among them mint and fennel; saffron gives its vivid yellow colour, and it carries the sweetness and viscosity typical of liqueurs.
Origin
Created in 1860 by wine merchant Giuseppe Alberti in Benevento, Italy; the name is the Italian word for 'witch', referencing local legends of witchcraft.
