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assion and family tradition were what<br />

made Enrico Bernard begin and con-<br />

tinue to make liqueurs. In 1902 his grandfa-<br />

ther and father had started making their own<br />

mountain “elixir”, made with the herbs and<br />

flowers they used to gather in the upper Val<br />

Germanasca. Today the top of the company’s<br />

range is Barathier, made with seven high<br />

mountain herbs and excellent either straight<br />

as a digestif or diluted with warm or cold wa-<br />

ter. Other good digestifs are Sërpoul, made<br />

with wild thyme flowers and two genepys,<br />

Blanc and Des Alpes, made with Artemisia<br />

mutellina flowers. As an aperitif we recom-<br />

mend the Rabarbaro, a rhubarb liqueur, with<br />

a splash of soda and a slice of lemon. Drunk<br />

straight it has excellent digestive proper-<br />

ties. The company’s latest creation, Abricot,<br />

is made with the stones of organic apricots<br />

from the Piedmontese countryside. Bernard’s<br />

liqueurs are on sale from top wine and spirits<br />

merchants in Turin and its province and can<br />

also be ordered directly.<br />

Visits by reservation.<br />

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