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No, It is native to subtropical regions of South America from southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina. The fruit is eaten for its pulp and seeds, and as a juice. The name passion fruit derives from 18th century Christian missionaries who interpreted the flower as a religious symbol.
Passion fruit (fruit) - Wikipedia
...Chinola uses a naturally occurring enzyme to break down the pulp before the final blending, with rum. Each bottle contains the juice of about 12 to 18 passion fruits. While it’s rather traditionally produced, the end result is anything but, with a smooth, purely fruity flavor that stands on its own for a spritz or highball and blends nicely with rum and agave spirits.
The distillery works on a closed system, with the local farmers living on the land. “We have their families come in to help us process at certain times of the year,” says Merinoff. “In the next year, we’re growing a minimum of a few hundred-thousand passion fruits a month but will soon get to over a million.”
As for what drew Broken Shaker to the partnership, Bar Lab hospitality consultancy co-founder Gabriel Orta says the team at the bar loved using passion fruit but it didn’t fit in the budget.
“Passion fruit is one of our favorite ingredients, but it’s hard to get and expensive,” says Orta. “When we tried [Chinola], we were hooked on the versatility to make drinks with it.”
Drinking Chinola truly has the feel of drinking fresh passion fruit juice, its 21 percent ABV almost dangerously unapparent, allowing your base spirit to take center stage against a backdrop of precise fruit flavor.
“We use it in one drink called the Liquid Swords,” says Orta. The cocktail features “lemongrass gin, Chinola, citrus and grapefruit beer with a spicy rim.” Others suggest you simply mix it, 50-50, with your favorite mezcal for a balance of tart, acid, floral and smoke.
This summer, the liqueur has expanded beyond the rooftops of Broken Shaker and ended up in cocktails in Montauk and elsewhere in New York City, but for now, it’s easiest to find in Miami or online.
In Austin, where it’s not yet available, the bar Academia features a cocktail called the Waiting for Chinola that uses a different passion fruit
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