Tradizionale

1. Keep your bottle of HELLO CELLO Limoncello di Sonoma in the freezer until ready to serve.
2. Then pour generously into a chilled aperitif glass. Sit on your front porch and sip away!

Limoncello di Sonoma Paradiso
Update the Screwdriver with sophisticated ingredients.

Ingredients Per Cocktail:
1-1/2 ounces orange vodka
1/2 ounce Limoncello di Sonoma
1/2 ounce Campari
1 ounce fresh orange juice

Preparation:
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Limoncello di Sonoma Mojito

Ingredients Per Cocktail:
2 parts Limoncello di Sonoma
3 parts rum
1 part agave syrup (or simple syrup)
2  lime wedges
Fresh mint leaves
Club soda

Preparation:
Muddle lime wedges, mint leaves and agave in a tall glass. Add ice, Limoncello di Sonoma and rum. Shake well. Top with club soda and garnish with fresh mint.

Limoncello Love.

This Valentines give a  fresh creative cocktail crafted with Limoncello Love and local ingredients.

Sonoma Kiss

5 oz HelloCello Limoncello di Sonoma

5 oz  raspberry sorbet

Gloria Ferrer Brut sparkling wine

Preparation: Combine Limoncello di Sonoma and sorbet in a bowl.  Blend or mix well and return to freezer.

Serving.  Fill martini glass with sparkling wine.  Using a melon ball scoop make a Limoncello sorbet ball.  Float the sorbet ball gently on top of the sparkling wine.

Suggested play list:  Dave Mathews – “You and Me” (happy and bubbly just like the drink.)

Sonoma 75

Ingredients:

1 ½ oz Hello Limoncello di Sonoma

1 ½ oz Junipero Gin

Gloria Ferrer Brut sparkling wine

1 Lemon wedge

Raspberries for garnish

Directions:

Combine Limoncello di Sonoma, Gin and a squeeze of lemon juice in an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass.  Top with sparkling wine and garnish with two raspberries.

Suggested play list:  Louis Armstrong “ Give me your Kisses”

Lemon Meringue Pie: The Carneros Bistro (The Lodge at Sonoma)

Mixologist: Tony Tealdi,

• 2 parts Absolute Vanilla Vodka
• 1 part Limoncello di Sonoma
• Squeeze for fresh lemon
• Splash of simple syrup

Shake all ingredients and serve up.

Served with a house-made meringue cookie with black olive and lemon zest

Lemon Meringue Pie

Baci di Limon: Estate Restaurant

Mixologist: Gary Saperstein

• 2 parts Junipero Gin
• 1 part Limoncello di Sonoma
• 1/3 part Foretti Biscotti Liqueur
• Squeeze for fresh lemon

Shake all ingredients and serve up.

Served with a house-made black olive biscotti

photo: Melania Mahoney

Crème Brule: Saddles Restaurant at MacArthur Place

photo: Melania Mahoney

recipe uploaded soon..



Brand New Organic Limoncello

(Sonoma, CA – December 18, 2009)  —  Introduce yourself to a new California twist on a classic Italian tradition.  HelloCello Limoncello di Sonoma is a brand new organic lemon liqueur hand-made by husband and wife team, Fred and Amy Groth.  Based in Sonoma, California, HelloCello uses the best organic ingredients grown at select vineyards, local farms and orchards in Northern California.   The smooth, refreshing beverage comes in a tall, sleek 375ml bottle with bright, sunny graphics and sells for the suggested retail price of $24.99.  Limoncello di Sonoma is available in specialty food stores like Whole Foods Market, Dean & Deluca, Traverso’s and Sonoma Market.  It can be tried at fine restaurants in Northern California like Girl & the Fig, Carneros Bistro, Sonoma Mission Inn, Bottega, and Bouchon.  It you are not in the area it may be purchased online at www.klwines.com or www.beltramos.com.

As is the tradition in Italy, HelloCello Limoncello di Sonoma can be enjoyed after dinner as a chilled digestif, but that’s just the beginning of its uses.  Shaken and stirred into creative cocktails or mixed into recipes for savory entrees to sweet desserts, Limoncello di Sonoma is a welcome addition to the bar or pantry.

Each bottle of the fresh lemon liqueur is hand-crafted by founders Fred and Amy Groth in their Limoncello laboratory in Sonoma Valley. The couple has earned the necessary Federal and State permits to be licensed as a distilled spirits plant (DSP).  HelloCello is an environmentally responsible business that believes in supporting local farms and producers, dedicated to zero waste, and are a carbon neutral producer.

“We are committed to bringing the best quality products to market that are great for people and the planet” says Fred Groth.

“We’ve always loved Limoncello in Italy,” says Amy Groth.  “We’ve also been inspired by the natural, organic, and Slow Food movement here in the states, particularly in Sonoma County.  We’ve had an obsession to create a Limoncello with the absolute freshest organic ingredients, so we moved our family from Colorado to Sonoma so we could have our pick of those ingredients and start this company.”

Amy and Fred Groth have studied the traditional Italian process of making Limoncello.  Fred even traveled to Italy where he learned methods and techniques used by both the largest and smallest producers in Italy.  The result is a Limoncello that is handcrafted in small batches using only 100% certified organic ingredients. The alcohol is produced from Demeter certified biodynamically grown and distilled grapes.  The grapes are distilled in a small cooper column pot still. The lemons selected, are approved by the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) and are similar in character to those grown in southern Italy along the Amalfi Coast. Raw organic Agave was selected as a sweetener instead of refined processed sugar to produce a product that is not overly sweet and lower on the glycemic index.  This allows the true citrus flavors to come forward in a fresh flavor profile. In addition to fresh natural ingredients, HelloCello uses custom engineered filtered water to help enhance the flavor of Limoncello di Sonoma.  The result of carefully combining these local ingredients is a fresh and zesty California alternative to Italy’s most loved liqueur.

For more information, including an updated list of stores and restaurants carrying Limoncello di Sonoma, please visit www.hellosonoma.com or call 707-721-6394.  HelloCello is also on Facebook and on Twitter @HelloSonoma.

For high resolution photos or to arrange an interview with Fred and Amy Groth, media may contact Tyffani Peters at 707-318-2726 or Tyffani@hellosonoma.com.

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Submit your best Limoncello di Sonoma Cocktail Recipe to be entered in our search for the best Limoncello Cocktail.

Prize: New custom color next generation Ipod Nano (with video)

Rules:

1. Become a Facebook fan of HelloCello Limoncello di Sonoma
2. Submit a cocktail recipe that uses Limoncello di Sonoma
   1. Post in Facebook discussions or email to Drink@hellosonoma.com
3. Entries will be judged by an expert panel of cocktail aficionados using the following parameters.
   1. Use of Limoncello di Sonoma
   2. Creativity
   3. Flavor profile
   4. Presentation
   5. Name
   6. Awesomeness

Enter as often as you want until December 30th.  Winner will be announced January 8^th on Facebook.  Winner will be acknowledged in all media

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1. FAC- Friday Afternoon Club. Every Friday afternoon and whenever it is a great time to chill, we will post a cocktail featuring Limoncello di Sonoma from our master mixologist.
2. TNC- Thursday Night Club. Can’t think of what to make for dinner or to bring to friends house this weekend? HelloCello will post an inspiring recipe featuring Limoncello di Sonoma every week to get your taste buds dancing.
3. CelloCam. Chill with Limoncello. See what Hellocello is up too, who we’re hanging with, where we are and visit beautiful Sonoma as seen through a cold glass of Limoncello di Sonoma.
4. Up to date event listings featuring HelloCello. Learn about the CelloCave’s VIP parties.
5. Monthly drawing from HelloCello’s Fan base for HelloCello merchandise and other fun stuff.
6. Post your “Limoncello Experience” pictures and stories. Admit it or don’t, we all have a Limoncello story to tell.

Limoncello di Sonoma “Store in your freezer and enjoy every day, so you can chill and enjoy everyday”

Mellow Yellow

Submitted by hsnavely on Mon, 11/02/2009 – 12:00am.

• San Francisco
• Drink

They call it limoncello…otherwise known as lemonade for grown-ups. Traditionally made out of lemon rinds, alchohol, sugar, and water, Hello Cello Limoncello di Sonoma’s spin on the Italian after-dinner liquor is crafted from local, CCOF-certified organic lemons, grappa (brandy) made from biodynamic grapes, and organic agave syrup. It’s a classy after-dinner alt to dessert, plus, packaging the deliciousness involves bamboo (a rapidly renewable resource) caps and labels, making this booze mellow on the environment, the palette, and if you drink enough of it, everything else. Quite rightly.

http://www.idealbite.com/san-francisco/today

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