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Luxardo - Maraschino Cherries (approx 65 per jar) - 400 g
Regular price $19.50 USDRegular price$30.00 USDSale price $19.50 USDSale
About Luxardo
- Based in
- Torreglia (Padua), Italy
- Founded
- 1821
- Known for
- maraschino liqueur and Maraschino Cherries
Girolamo Luxardo founded the distillery in Zara, on the Dalmatian coast, in 1821 to make maraschino liqueur from marasca cherries, a recipe his wife Maria Canevari helped perfect. After the Second World War the family rebuilt in Torreglia, near Padua, in the Veneto. The company is still entirely controlled by the founding family, with the sixth generation now working in it.
Luxardo owns about 22,000 marasca cherry trees, and the fruit goes into both its maraschino liqueur and its candied cherries.
Luxardo questions
What is a marasca cherry?
The marasca is a small, sour cherry of the Morello type, with fruit so dark it looks nearly black. It grows best along the coast of Dalmatia, the region where Luxardo was founded, and it is the only cherry used for true maraschino liqueur. Its dark color comes from natural plant pigments called anthocyanins.
Where does the name maraschino come from?
Maraschino takes its name from the marasca cherry. The first maraschino cherries were dark, sour marascas from Dalmatia preserved in a liqueur made from the same fruit, and Luxardo, founded in Zara in 1821, has made maraschino from marascas ever since. The bright red cherries common in the US are a later version: light-colored sweet cherries bleached in a brine, then dyed and sweetened.
