Thiennelt Echte Kroatzbeere Blackberry Liqueur (75cl, 30%)

A blackberry liqueur built on a recipe dating to 1907, when Moritz Thienelt developed it using wild forest blackberries. Roughly half of every bottle is pure wild blackberry juice, and the liqueur is now made in Switzerland following the original German recipe. It pours a concentrated, nearly opaque plum hue and shows intense bramble, earthy ripe fruit, deep blackberry taste, stony ripe preserves-like sweetness and a jammy, ripe finish. It can be chilled and sipped neat, poured over ice, splashed into a Kir or Champagne, or drizzled over vanilla ice cream and holiday fruitcake.