Tia Maria Dark Liqueur Italy (6 x 700mL)

Tia Maria Dark Liqueur Italy (6 x 700mL)

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Nose

Delicate, mild roasted coffee on the nose with sweet honey-like aromas, balanced with a light vanilla background and rich caramel notes.

Palate

Taste rich roasted coffee with an intense hit of vanilla and chocolate flavors. Smooth and balanced with a lush texture. Lastly, it will finish with long- lasting luxurious roasted grounds and cacao.

Varietal Composition

Coffee Liqueur

Alcohol Volume

20.0%

Tia Maria is a dark liqueur made originally in Jamaica using Jamaican coffee beans. The main flavour ingredients are coffee beans, Jamaican rum, vanilla, and sugar, blended to an alcoholic content of 26.5%. The historical fable of its origins dates it to the 1700s. A young Spanish girl was forced to flee Jamaica, and the family plantation during a conflict. She was accompanied by a sole servant who carried a bit of jewelry and the recipe for the family liqueur. In honor of the woman's help, the girl named the liqueur "Tia Maria" (tia is Spanish for "aunt"), her name for the woman who had helped save her life. One account of its history says that a man named Dr. Evans discovered the drink after World War II, and he began reproducing it. This story of Dr. Evans devotion to the drink is part of the official website's history, however.According to some sources, it was actually created in Jamaica in the 1930s. The Jamaican company Lascelles supposedly manufactured the concentrate from which the liqueur was made, at least, up until the time it was sold by Pernod.