This amaro tastes of one mountain's summer meadow. Yellow and trumpet gentian, wormwood, musk yarrow, genepy and germander all come from Mount Noveis, the peak between the Valsesia and Valsessera valleys in Upper Piedmont that gives the bottle its name, and whose slopes fill with alpine wildflowers every summer. It was the Francoli family's first liqueur, created in the 1950s, and they still make it from the original recipe. Those mountain herbs are joined by cinchona, rhubarb, sweet and bitter orange, licorice and anise, all steeped in a neutral molasses spirit. At a moderate 24% alcohol, it's built for slow sipping after dinner rather than knocking back. The family's distilling story begins in 1875 with a makeshift still in Luigi Guglielmo Francoli's home in the Valtellina. His descendants opened the Ghemme distillery in 1951, and it has been certified carbon neutral since 2006. If your amaro shelf is stuck on the usual big names, this is a good excuse to head for the Alps.