# Maraschino liqueur

A clear cherry liqueur distilled from marasca cherries and their stones, with dry fruit, almond, floral, and lightly funky notes.

Parent category: [Cherry liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cherry-liqueur.md)

Alcohol: 32% ABV

## Types

- [Luxardo Maraschino](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/luxardo-maraschino.md): 32% ABV. A clear marasca cherry liqueur with roasted-nut, dark-chocolate, vanilla, and orange notes.

## Cocktails

- [Beachcomber](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/beachcomber.md): A compact white-rum sour where lime and dry orange liqueur meet enough maraschino to turn a Daiquiri outline floral, nutty, and faintly bitter.
- [Coronation Cocktail (Joseph Rose)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coronation-cocktail-joseph-rose.md): Joseph Rose’s 1903 Coronation is a bone-dry vermouth-and-fino cocktail lifted by tiny measures of maraschino and orange bitters.
- [Demerara Dry Float](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/demerara-dry-float.md): Lime, passion fruit, maraschino, and aged rum make an unusually tart tropical drink whose overproof black-rum sidecar lets the drinker choose the danger.
- [Ideal Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ideal-cocktail.md): Fresh grapefruit and dry maraschino brighten a shaken gin-and-sweet-vermouth cocktail poised between the Martinez and the Bronx.
- [Newark](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/newark.md): Bottled-in-bond apple brandy takes the Brooklyn template across the Hudson, with sweet vermouth, Fernet-Branca, and maraschino around a dry, oak-aged core.
- [Oh, My Word!](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/oh-my-word.md): Sother Teague rebuilds the Last Word without citrus, stirring Old Tom gin, Montenegro, Chartreuse, maraschino, and orange bitters into a lush herbal nightcap.
- [Opera Cocktail (Savoy)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/opera-cocktail-savoy.md): The Savoy’s Opera is a cherry-darkened dry Gin Martini, with Dubonnet’s quinquina bitterness connecting juniper to maraschino.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/maraschino-liqueur
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/maraschino-liqueur-bf06cc9b.webp
- Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019R0787