Producer
Dopolavoro
Dopolavoro is a liqueur/aperitif marketed as "Esercizio da Bere" and produced by Vecchio Magazzino Doganale. It is presented as an amaro-style, fortified wine-based aperitif with herbal infusions and Calabrian citrus peels; commercial format 50 cl, ABV about 18% vol.
- Montalto Uffugo · Calabria · Italy
- 2 products
The story
Dopolavoro is a label in the Vecchio Magazzino Doganale catalogue, a company with a long narrative heritage operating in Calabria. The product appears in the company's official selection as a ready-to-drink liqueur/aperitif and is part of the range of rural amari and liqueurs offered by the producer.
Production philosophy
More than a single product, Dopolavoro embodies the producer's approach to valuing local raw materials and conviviality: "products for company", inspired by Italian liqueur tradition and designed to be consumed outside formal aperitif rituals.
Territory
Calabria (production and harvest of some botanicals in the Calabrian territory); the producer Vecchio Magazzino Doganale operates in the province of Cosenza.
Production method
Marketed as a ready-to-drink bitter aperitif: described as a fortified wine base to which infusions of herbal extracts and Calabrian citrus peels are added. No more detailed technical descriptions of distillation or specific maturation processes are available online.
Characteristics
- Type
- Producer
- City
- Montalto Uffugo
- Categories
- amari
- citrus liqueurs
- herbal liqueurs
- fortified wine-based aperitifs
- liqueurs for convivial drinking
- Raw materials
- fortified wine base
- Calabrian citrus peels
- herbal extracts/infusions
- Representative products
- Aperitivo Esercizio da Bere 50cl - Dopolavoro
- Aperitivo Esercizio da Bere 50cl - Astucciato - Dopolavoro
What makes it distinctive
- Produced and marketed by Vecchio Magazzino Doganale
- Type: amaro / ready-to-drink aperitif liqueur
- Common format: 50 cl
- ABV: about 18% vol
- Official description: fortified wine base with infusions of herbs and Calabrian citrus peels; recommended neat, with ice, or mixed with soda/tonic