Limoncello
After a traditional meal mainly based on fish, it is very common in the campania region to drink limoncello, usually after coffee. limoncello is a traditional spirit distilled from lemon rinds, typical of naples, caserta and ischia. it is a natural product, usually home-made from rinds of local lemons which are characterised by their large size and thick peel. limoncello is made by steeping lemon rids in alcohol and by adding water and sugar. it is usually served chilled as an appetizer or digestif. it is also mixed with champagne and white wine to prepare cocktails. how to make limoncello ingredients: 2kg of lemons, 1 l alcohol, 2 l water, 1 kg sugar. put lemon peelings alcohol for 21 days in a dark place. then boil sugar and water. when cooled add to lemon-alcohol, mix, filter peelings and fill into bottles..and the limoncello is ready!
Ischia Bianco Doc
The soul of ischia soul is not the sea, but farming and wine growing, once in fact an area of 3,000 hectares now 800, was devoted to this main activity. thanks to its commerce in wine, casa d'ambra was founded, with its premises at the port, making history in wine on the island and in southern italy. doc ischia is among the oldest in italy : it goes back in fact to the mid 1870s and covers the whole island. the vine heritage is quite varied and includes grapes such as biancolella, forastera, grape rilla, san lunardo, coglionara and falanghina.the tendency has always been for table wines to accompany either seafood or land-produce dishes. the result is a particularly elegant wine, due mostly to the volcanic terrain and dry microclimate with good thermal conditions.
On the Island of Ischia, the viticulture has millenarian origins. The cultivation technique is like the Greek traditional one. In fact, it is different from that one used in the middle of Italy and in the rest of the Campania province. From the coasts to the steep mountain slopes is where the vine is cultivated on proper terraced fields.Here is a list of the most famous and diffused kinds of grapes, all cultivated in the island from about 300 years ago: White Grapes - Biancolella, Forastera, and Arilla S. Lunardo; Red Grapes â Guarnaccia and Pedirosso o Pere e Palummo.