Luxardo S.p.A.

I got, I might take a...

I think I got some bitters hanging around the house, and I might have some, um, Luxardo cherries that I made this summer-

Sure

...

Listen to some of these exotics, just these, these well thought out, well-prepared, uh, just single, uh, bites of goodness for you.

Buffalo with Luxardo cherries and mint, rattlesnake and rabbit with jalapeno peppers.

That's probably the very first one I ever had.

Uh, lamb with Mediterranean spices, pheasant with herbes de Provence, uh, rabbit and pork with leeks and carrots, duck and bacon with jalapeno peppers.

So that's your mod.

Everything else is kinda like... 'Cause I, I, I gotta be honest, for my Last Word, because I think the Luxardo's kind of a bully, I rob a quarter ounce from that and give it back to the gin to give it a little extra heft.

Yeah.

Fair.

Totally valid.

I st- I still think the acid takes over in my mind.

I also think, uh, Luxardo is a great, um, brand, and me and Chris, uh, not just a bartender, agree on this.

We love Luxardo.

So it's pretty much bourbon, apple cider, and then top it with ginger beer.

And then I usually put like a sliced orange in it and a cherry, a Luxardo cherry, like the fancy cherries in it.

And I'm a big fan of that, getting them into the fall, like sitting around a fire.

So I will do that.

Right.

Luxardo also doesn't count.

Bourbon counts, but not for this contest.

[laughs]

[laughs] Bourbon cherries, Luxardo cherry.

Mm.

All the cherries.

Mm-mm.

Yeah, when the guy from Luxardo was here.

Interesting.

Yeah, no, I wasn't on that episode.

the maraschino liqueur does not taste like cherry, which is what people need to be aware of.

If

you're buying a Luxardo cherry, you want the sangre maramola.

Sangre maramola.

All

right, what if I, to feel comfortable, would walk in with a whiskey old-fashioned with two Luxardo cherries? Would that cost the line? Would that be bad?

I think that would probably be bad.

Yeah, I don't know.

What's the cherries that you drink when you're having little attacks? It's the cherry juice that you drink.

Luxardo? Oh.

No, no, no. It's something cherry.

It's like sour cherry or something like that.

Oh, wow.

That's, like, really dark Luxardo cherries.

This is a 12-year 95.5 from Indiana, 125 and a half proof.

Oh my gosh.

The taste does, it has that familiar 95.5 taste to it.

Yeah, but that, like, cherry syrup note's, like, amplified.

I mean, it's like the Luxardo cherry syrup that you put with a little juju in your old fashioned.

A juju?