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Strega

Hal­loween is just around the cor­ner, so what bet­ter liquor to fea­ture than Stre­ga (Ital­ian for witch). Leg­end has it that the town of Ben­even­to, where Stre­ga has been made since 1860, was the meet­ing ground of all the witch­es of the world. I keep pic­tur­ing a gag­gle of witch­es sit­ting around a bub­bling caul­dron, cack­ling and stir­ring the 70 ghoul­ish ingre­di­ents that make up this liquor. Beyond the con­nec­tion to Hal­loween, You’ve got to love the tra­di­tion. Today Stre­ga is …