Passione Nera is an Italian

Italy

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 liqueur

Liqueur

A liqueur is an alcoholic beverage that has been flavored with fruit, herbs, nuts, spices, flowers, or cream and bottled with added sugar. Liqueurs are typically quite sweet; they are usually not aged for long but may have resting periods during their production to allow flavors to marry.The...

, similar to Sambuca

Sambuca

Sambuca is an Italian anise-flavoured, usually colourless, liqueur. Its most common variety is often referred to as white sambuca to differentiate it from other varieties that are deep blue in colour or bright red ....

. It is produced by Luxardo

Luxardo

Girolamo Luxardo S.p.A is an Italian liqueur factory. Founded in Zadar, it moved near Padua after 1945.-History 1821-1945:The firm was founded in 1821, in the city of Zara , by Girolamo Luxardo, who had moved there in 1817 as the consular representative of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the Kingdom of...

, who also produce Sambuca and Limoncello

Limoncello

Limoncello is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy, especially in the region around the Gulf of Naples, the Sorrentine Peninsula and the coast of Amalfi and islands of Procida, Ischia and Capri, but also in Sicily, Sardinia, Menton in France, and the Maltese island of Gozo...

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It has a strength of 38 ABV

Alcohol by volume

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 and its consistency is very similar to the syrupy characteristics of Sambuca. Passione Nera, however, is a dark purple-black colour. The liqueur's predominant flavor is star anise

Star anise

Illicium verum, commonly called Star anise, star aniseed, or Chinese star anise, is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, obtained from the star-shaped pericarp of Illicium verum, a small native evergreen tree of northeast Vietnam and southwest China...

, though there are also hints of cardamom

Cardamom

Cardamom refers to several plants of the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. Both genera are native to India and Bhutan; they are recognised by their small seed pod, triangular in cross-section and spindle-shaped, with a thin papery outer shell and small black seeds...

 and coriander

Coriander

Coriander is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. Coriander is native to southern Europe and North Africa to southwestern Asia. It is a soft, hairless plant growing to tall. The leaves are variable in shape, broadly lobed at the base of the plant, and slender and feathery higher on the...

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