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Matchbook Distillery Day Trip Peach Amaro 187ml
Matchbook Distilling Co. is an avant garde R+D facility bridging the gap between tradition and science. One of the most thoughtful and adventurous distillers in the country today, they're not afraid to buck convention with the goal of producing quality over quantity. The small facility located in Greenport, New York is devoted to sustainable agriculture and returning to a farmer-driven distillation cycle, where distillation is a means of preserving energy rather than extracting it. For the peach amaro, they sourced 1,000 lbs of imperfect fruit from the nearby Briarmere Orchard. The peaches were boiled to produce a peach puree, then champagne yeast was added to ferment the mixture until it was off dry. The final step was adding a peach made from peach leaves, and flavored with flowers, herbs, elderberries, and bark. The distillery says, "Day Trip Peach Amaro captures the peach at its peak, layers it with the flavors of fermentation, intensifies it with the distillate of the peach leaves. The bit of quassia creates contrast. And anchors it a bit. We didn't go too deep with the bitter or the sweet - to hold the fresh peach in clear focus in a gentle amaro structure."