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Sorrento, Amalfi, Capri: which is the true birthplace of Italy’s most famous liqueur, limoncello?
We may never know for sure as there are different stories about the origins of Limoncello. What we know is that Limoncello has been around for at least 100 years; it is said that, at the beginning of the 20th century, it was customary for the wealthiest Sorrento families to always offer a taste of Limoncello to their most illustrious guests.
On its website, Federvini, the Italian Association of Wine/Liqueur Producers, reports that Limoncello was born at the beginning of the 20th century in a small inn on Capri, where a local lady, Maria Antonia Farace, tended a luxuriant garden of lemons and oranges. Her grandson, after World War II, opened a restaurant nearby whose specialty was the lemon liqueur made following the old recipe of his nonna. In 1988, the grandson’s son, Massimo Canale, started an artisanal production of Limoncello, and registered its mark…
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