Mirtillo Mazzetti: bilberries in a glass
Berry juice meets a Piedmontese distillate in a liqueur at 21% ABV.
Bilberry plant, flowers and berries in Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen, 1796, by Johann Georg Sturm and Jacob Sturm. The fruit evoked by Mirtillo; public domain.
Johann Georg Sturm / Jacob Sturm · Image source · Public domain
The fruit behind the name
Mirtillo is the Italian word for bilberry. Mazzetti d’Altavilla builds this liqueur around the juice of the small blue berry and a Piedmontese distillate. The house calls the fruit a blue treasure of the woodland.
Juice changes the style
Here, fruit is more than an aroma someone might recognise in a distilled spirit. Its juice is part of the liqueur’s composition, contributing to the intended sweetness and fruity character. The botanical plate offers another way to look at the berry, without claiming a particular harvest site or a cultivar that the producer has not specified.
A soft, approachable palate
At 21% ABV, Mirtillo favours softness and a clearly recognisable bilberry fragrance. It is a generous, fruit-led style, with gentler alcoholic warmth than the grape spirits on our menu. The berry is the thread running through the first impression and the memory of the sip, rather than a background detail.
At La Corte Segreta
We offer a 4 cl measure. Bilberry, berry, fruity and sweet are useful search terms. Fragolina gives another expression of small fruits, built around wild strawberry rather than bilberry.
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