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Darbo syrup - 4 more syrups to try

After I have reviewed the ultimative Darbo elderflower, I was really looking forward to taste the other syrups as well. And after my days off, I found in our F&B office a bag with four more syrups. Let's get directly to the point: Darbo Blueberry & Cassis Syrup It is a very dark syrup - undiluted it is almost black. In the glass with some water it changes in a beautiful dark crimson. Already when you open the bottle, the room fills with wild blueberry aromas. It intensifies if you pour it into the glass. The black currents are almost not showing up in the nose. On the tongue there is a hit of blueberry aromas, but directly followed by black current notes = cassis. It plays back and forth - but the afterthought is definitely cassis. I cannot remember, to have tasted a better berry syrup. Ever. Well - a home-macerated wood strawberry syrup might be a worthy contender... but apparently it is always much easier to open a bottle [and if you think about wild wood str...