Calisaya (liqueur) Calisaya (liqueur) Calisaya (liqueur) is a herbal liqueur produced by infusing cinchona calisaya, and other barks, roots and flowers in grain neutral spirit and seville orange extract. It is a contemporary revision of the classic Italian amaro. It is handcrafted in small numbered batches by Elixir, Inc., a craft distillery in Eugene, Oregon, which was founded by the Italian brothers Andrea and Mario Loreto. It can be drunk as both an Apéritif and digestif or used as a bitter ingredient in cocktails. Cinchona based liqueurs are very popular in Italy under the generic name of China (pronounced Kee-nah), the Italian
Sambuca (instrument) in 1476, the sambuca is described as a cithara, which in that century was generally glossed "harp": In "Tristan und Isolde" (bars 7563-72) when the knight is enumerating to King Marke all the instruments upon which he can play, the "sambiut" is the last mentioned: A Latin–French glossary has the equivalence Psalterium = . During the later Middle Ages was often translated "sackbut" in the vocabularies, whether merely from the phonetic similarity of the two words has not yet been established. The great Boulogne Psalter (11th Century) contains many fanciful instruments which are evidently intended to illustrate the equally vague