Amarula

How fitting it was that I had my first experience of the treasures of Amarula in Africa, a continent that I visit very frequently. Amarula is an extremely unique drink because it uses the fruit from the Marula Tree, which is only found in the heart of Africa (Sub Equatorial Africa to be precise). The fruit from the Marula Tree, once ripened is a bright yellow in colour and the flesh is white. The ripe fruit is gathered and the flesh is removed from the skin. It is fermented and distilled in copper pots and then matured in oak casks for around two years. All this time it is continuously enriched with small amounts of Marula extract. ...  Read the complete review

There is a half empty liqueur bottle sitting in my drinks cabinet. Well, that’s a lie, it’s actually sitting right beside me now, and it has gone from being ‘quite empty’ to ‘almost completely empty’ whilst I have been doing a bit of research. The contents of the bottle is Amarula and to be fair I have had it for about eight months as I have been saving it and drinking only a little at a time. I have struggled trying not to drink it all and I could easily drink a bottle in a much shorter time!!! So, a bit of factual information and history for you. Amarula is a blend of “natures fresh cream and the mysterious taste of ...  Read the complete review

THE ESSENCE Amarula Cream is flavoured by the fruit of the mysterious marula tree found only in sub-equatorial Africa. Many legends surround the marula tree, Sclerocarrya birrea, - they cannot be cultivated by man, so the fruit is harvested in the wild; many tribes perform traditional marriage ceremonies and fertility rites beneath its mysterious branches; the bark is eaten by expectant Venda mothers to determine the gender of their unborn child; the Zulus believe someone suffering from measles will be cured if the walk silently to a marula tree and bite its bark at the break of dawn. When ripe the fruit takes on the colour of the African sun ...  Read the complete review

It's not often I drink but at my daughter's house the other day she showed me an unusual bottle of liqueur called Amarula, I loved the picture of the elephant on the label and the unusual golden tassel around the neck of the bottle. When she offered me a glass and told me it was a fruity liqueur I decided to take her up on it as it sounded like a nice change from the usual chocolate and coffee flavours most liqueurs tend to focus on. Amarula is a South African liqueur made from the marula fruit which is distilled and then matured for two years before being blended with cream to create the finished drink. Amarula has an ABV of 17%, which is equal to most ...  Read the complete review

? AMARULA CREAM is a smooth experience- a pure and precious blend of nature?s fresh cream and the mysterious taste of the wild marula fruit?. That?s what the empty bottle on my shelf says and I couldn?t put it better myself. I first drank Amarula whilst on an expedition in Malawi. It was the end of the trip and myself and friends found it at the bar, at our camp, in a Nature Reserve. From its discovery we became hooked. Unlike the UK where it?s one of the pricier drinks about, Amarula was cheap- about 70pence a drink on ice. We spent our time relaxing under the African sun at the edge of the River Shire that flows from Lake Malawi into the Zambezi, sipping this magical ...  Read the complete review