Limoncello

A Brief History of Limoncello
The liquor was born in the early 1900s, in a small pension Blue Island, where Ms. Maria Antonia Farace cared a lush garden of lemons and oranges. The nephew, after the war, he opened a catering business right near the villa of Axel Munthe. The specialty of this bar was just the lemon liqueur made with the old grandmother's recipe. In 1988, the son Maximum Channel started to turn a small artisan production of limoncello, recording the brand. But in reality, even in Sorrento and Amalfi, flake legends and stories about the production of the traditional yellow liqueur. In coastal, for example, the story goes that the great families of Sorrento, in the early 1900s, never did fail to distinguished guests a taste of limoncello, made according to the traditional recipe. In Amalfi, some argue that even the liquor has very ancient origins, nearly related to the cultivation of lemon. However, as often happens in these circumstances, the truth is nebulous and assumptions are many and striking. Some say the limoncello was used by fishermen and farmers in the morning to combat the cold, even in the days of the invasion of the Saracens. Others, however, believe that the recipe was born in a monastery monastic monks to delight between a prayer and another. The truth, perhaps, not the'll never know. But beyond purely parochial issues, the traditional yellow liqueur crosses borders for decades, conquering markets around the world. Bottles of limoncello are present on the shelves of the overseas market, and important new business scenarios are developing Asian markets. Limoncello, therefore, is likely to become a truly world-class product on a par with Bitter or dell'Amaretto. And to guard against imitations, it is also running for cover, reserving to the production of the distinctive 'oval' Sorrentino naming Protected Geographical Indication (PGI). The original Sorrento lemon has to be produced in one of the municipalities of the region from Vico Equense to Massa Lubrense and the island of Capri.