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Vicario 'Monk's Secret' Liqueur, South Carolina (750ml)   

Monastery brew houses and elixir distillers from different religious orders have been in existence all over Europe since the early Middle-Ages. The Cistercians, Benedictines, and Trappists were part of a network of religious houses which exchanged ideas and procedures but also kept a few secrets.

Beyond being a place of worship and contemplation, Monastic gardens provided food and medicinal plants to monks and their guests. After careful reading of ancient monastic texts, Vicario crafted this maceration of over 15 aromatic herbs and spices and named it after these famous religious orders. It is an exquisitely round and exotic liqueur, an excellent digestive.  Notes include lemon, sage, fennel seed, tarragon, bitter gentian, olive oil and more. Remarkably well balanced with a roundness on the nose and palate and a pleasantly long bittersweet finish that lingers and fades out in brilliant fashion.