Legend has it that while the plague ravaged Europe in the 15th century, a botanist named Richard Forthave created a popular herbal tonic as protection. Forthave Spirits uses inspirations like this one when they craft their botanical spirits. The Brooklyn distillery was founded by two friends, Aaron Sing and Daniel de al Nuez, and they use only plant-based ingredients drawing from their botanical library of over 200 herbs, roots, barks, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds to create their spirits. Sweetened with organic turbinado sugars or raw honey from upstate New York, almost every ingredient is USDA organically certified unless sourced from small farmers without such certifications. This Forthave Red aperitivo is a bittersweet aperitivo infused with 13 botanicals including orange, chamomile and rose. Perfect mixed with soda water or grapefruit juice, on the rocks with lime, or in a Negroni. 24% ABV / 750 ml