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1868 Rep. Her Majesty's Consuls on Manuf., Commerce, of their Consular Districts 6 115 Prices of Piedmontese wines sold by Messrs. Caminale and Bussone, commission agents at Turin... Red Wines in Bottle... Pignolo Amaro, 1865 (Neive)... Vino Spanna Amaro.]

1945 Foreign Commerce Weekly 25 Aug. 23/1 The most popular beverage in Uruguay is wine... Spirituous liquors are consumed in relatively small quantities... Grappa is distilled from the skins and pits of grapes. The third most popular is an aperitif called amaro or amerge.

1980 B. Anderson Vino, Wines & Winemakers Italy 41 DOC also permits a Barolo Chinato whose name comes from china (chinchona), a bitter Peruvian bark. When a tonic made from this china is steeped in Barolo it makes a drink much appreciated locally for its healthful virtues. A superb amaro, it is good either before or after a meal.

1984 Retail Business No. 317. 26/1 Kummel, Italian specialities such as Sambuca and ‘amari’, and ouzo.

1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 126 The eldest girl carried in a bottle of amaro and two glasses.

1993 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 124/2 Like Campari, which is considered an amaro even though people usually drink it as an aperitif, after-dinner amari combine bitter and sweet flavors, although the balance shifts towards the bitter.

2004 Gastronomica Summer 81/2 Between the fourteenth century and the early seventeenth century, monastic orders and village alchemists became the primary producers of amari.

2017 Daily Tel. 12 May 19 The darker and more brooding Cynar, an artichoke-infused variety of amaro—the bitter class of Italian herbal liqueurs to which Aperol and Campari also loosely belong.