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May 2, 2006
Obscure Liquor Review: Mastic Liquor
I'm a big fan of ouzo and generally make sure to pick up a good bottle while I'm visiting the country. My personal favorite is Barbayannis's Aphrodite Ouzo. This past trip, however, I passed through Chios, and they have a cottage industry dedicated to exploiting their local production of mastic sap for various various uses including Mastic Liquor:
It turns out that this stuff is actually good. It's a bit on the sweet side and really likeable in small doses. It's like liquid loukoumia. On the other hand, mastic-flavored ouzo doesn't quite work very well:
The problem here is that this is already anis flavored liquor. It doesn't need another flavor-- putting in mastic kind of defeats the purpose. It's not quite as syrupy, though, but I like my regular ouzo, and the Chioti version isn't an improvement.
Posted by Dean at May 2, 2006 10:32 PM
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