Description
The cherries are cultivates in our orchards of Alba, Langhe e Roero
They are harvested by hand several times in the season to respect the natural maturation and to allow us to have aproduct at the right point of maturation. We obtain a raw material naturally sweet and with excellent quality; we work them a few hours after collection.
Within 24 hours of collection the cherries are worked by adding natural syrup made from a delicate Moscato Grappa which is obtained by a slow distillation of grape of Moscato d’Asti. The result is a product preserved with the same characteristics associated with freshness but with unique organoleptic properties and the particular flavor of grappa, and enhances the cherry flavored..
It is a preserved fruit and evergreen classic that reminds us of the one prepared for us by our grandmothers.
They are great to taste the natural, simply opening the jar, or make delicious desserts, and ice cream.
The syrup is good to drink natural but is enhanced in the preparation of fine cocktails!.
…It ‘great to be enjoyed on winter evenings in front of a fireplace, perhaps drinking a glass of brandy….
Elementary information
Name of product: Cherries in Moscato Grappa
Category: Fruit in Grappa
Peso netto: 320 g.
Ingredienti: Cherries, Moscato grappa, cane sugar
Raw materials
Origin: Piemonte
Variety: Cherries (Prunus Avium)
ay of cultivation: organic certified
Period of harvest: end May
Way of picking: by hand
Varietal characteristics
The cherry (Prunus avium), also called bird cherry or wild cherry tree is a tree belonging to the Rosaceae family, native to Europe (from the British Isles to Russia) and the Middle East.
Known since antiquity, was cataloged by Plinio Il Vecchio, who distinguished himself in two tipologiein ase the cherry-flavored sour or sweet.
It is a tree deciduoche can arrive at 32 m in height, and can have a trunk of 1.5 m diametr!
The cherry tree lives about 100 years.
The bark is smooth, purple-brown with prominent horizontal lenticels gray-brown in young trees, which become thicker and darker fissures in older trees.
The leaves are alternate, simple ovoid, acute, 7-14 cm long, 4-7 cm wide and broad, glabrous, pale green or a bright top.
The white flowers are arranged in stalked corymbs two to six together, each flower pendant on a peduncle 2-5 cm, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, with five white petals, yellow stamens and an ovary pendent, the flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by bees. Flowering occurs in early spring while the production of new leaves.
The fruit is a fleshy drupe (berry) of 1-2 cm in diameter (larger in some cultivated selections), a bright red to a dark purple when mature in mid summer. The edible fruit has a sweet taste to be quite astringent and amaroe contains a single core.
The fruits are eaten by many birds and animals, is one of the first fruits of this season and theu love it!
… like us!
… when you was a child did you climbed a cherry tree and ate the cherries directly on?
Way of production
The entire production process is done manually according to the old country tradition of home production of fruit in syrup consumed in winter-spring, in the absence of fresh fruits.
The freshly picked fruit is selected, washed and put into jars by hand.
All the production is do in less than 24 hours frm the harvesting of the fruits.
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