List of products by brand Montenegro

In Bologna, in the bars under the arcades of the centre, people fantasize about travel epic, of flight and speed. The gaze extends beyond the province: the discovery of exotic countries, new trade exchanges, the longing for freedom and progress. It is in this context that Amaro Montenegro was born, the realization of an ideal that its creator developed later having traveled and experimented with a spirit of adventure. Stanislao Cobianchi was born in 1862. A proud and passionate young man alchemist, distances himself from the religious education imposed on him by family who wants him to be a priest and, following his instincts, he embarks again teenager, on a merchant ship looking for adventure. The discovery of unusual botanical specialties strikes him and, returning to Italy, he decides to dedicate yourself to the preparation of liqueurs and elixirs. In 1885, after 4 years of rigorous experiments, Amaro Montenegro formula and founds the “Cobianchi Stanislao Steam Distillery”. Our Amaro was born in 1885 with the name Elisir Lungavita and obtained received notable recognition. Only eleven years later, on the occasion of the charming man's wedding Princess Elena of Montenegro with Prince Vittorio Emanuele III, Stanislaus decides to dedicate his elixir to that royal figure, therefore changing the name to Amaro Montenegro. Stanislao wants to create an unmistakable bottle the elixir it contains. For this reason he draws an ampoule, evocative of a “potion”, the result of an alchemy that is well suited to the its complex formula. This form immediately becomes a distinctive icon, extremely dear to its admirers, which will remain substantially unchanged over the years decades to come.