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3 red flags that tell you you're drinking bad limoncello

Published by Business Insider on Thu, 17 Oct 2019


I recently visited the orchards of Amalfi coast limoncello brand Pallini.It turns out limoncello isn't always the sickly sweet, syrupy drink you're often given for free after a meal in an Italian restaurant.Pallini President and CEO Macaela Pallini and Brand Export Manager Luca Cervellione Pallini told me about three red flags you should watch out for to make sure you're getting good quality limoncello.The liqueur shouldn't leave your mouth puckered in discomfort, shouldn't smell of alcohol, and should always clearly display where the lemons are from on the bottle.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Not all limoncello is born the same.I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Pallini orchards on the Amalfi coast in southern Italy, where small harvests of gigantic Sfusato Amalfitano lemons are handpicked for distillation.While you might know limoncello as the sickly sweet after-dinner drink usually given for free at your local Italian restaurant, or a luminescent gift you bought at the airport, the product I had in Salerno was a very different beverage.Read more: Sicily is one of Europe's most overlooked tourist destinationsand these photos I took will prove itI spoke to Pallini President and CEO Macaela Pallini and Brand Export Manager Luca Cervellione Pallini (it's a family business) about the three red flags that can help you tell the difference between quality limoncello, and the stuff that looks like toxic waste.Bad limoncello will cause 'Allappa' or thick tongueAccording to Macaela, bad limoncello will cause "allappa," which she described as "thick tongue""it's not a pleasurable feeling afterwards," she said.From the verb "allappare," a better translation might be that it makes your mouth pucker due to the sourness."A good limoncello has a fresh tartness, it's not overbalanced and leaves your tongue fresh and clean," she said.You can't smell real lemon"If you open a bottle of Pallini, you smell lemon," Luca saidand he means real lemon.He added that many brands will use a strong alcohol percentage to cover up the fact that there are little or no natural ingredients in their product. Therefore, when you're served a shot of limoncello, the first thing you smell should not be the alcohol."You can really feel the perfumes of the Amalfi coast in a good limoncello," Micaela said.The bottle doesn't tell you where the lemons are fromCervellione said that the quality of the lemons used in production is paramount to the flavour of the finished liqueur. Therefore, if your limoncello doesn't clearly display where it's main ingredient is coming from, it's fairly safe to assume that they just don't want you to know."We're very proud to say we use the lemons from the Amalfi coast because they're very special," Luca said.The Sfusato Amalfitano lemons are unique, he says, for their high sweetness and low acidityyou can literally bite into one like an apple without screwing your face up.They also have a much larger pith than regular lemons, which is ideal for distillation as the actual fruit is a byproduct of limoncello.Even if you're not sipping the liqueur from a sunny terrace on the Amalfi coast, it's time to set your limoncello standards a little higher.Read more of Tom Murray's reporting from Italy:I stayed in one of Italy's ghost towns that's selling off homes for $1, and I was treated like royaltyPositanothe colorful, Instagram-famous town on Italy's Amalfi Coastis almost comically beautiful, but be prepared to deal with hordes of tourists and sky-high prices2 restaurant views show how different visiting the glittering island of Capri is if you're not loaded with cashI visited Pompeii in the middle of Europe's deadly heat wave, and I couldn't believe how many tourists braved the sweltering temperaturesJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Amazon is reportedly seeking a new space in New York City. Here's why the giant canceled its HQ2 plans 5 months ago.
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