Light and shade in an amaro
Cappelletti borrows a painter’s word to describe a meeting of bitter and sweet.
Sfumato takes its name from the Renaissance painting technique in which light and shade blend into one another. Cappelletti uses that image to describe an amaro where the bitterness of alpine herbs meets sweet woodland-fruit notes.
Chinese rhubarb is its principal ingredient. The producer says it has used this plant for more than a century in amari and aperitifs. The name offers a way to read Sfumato’s flavor: contrasting notes brought together, as tones are blended in a painting.
