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Palo de Mallorca

Palo de Mallorca (IG)

🗓 Year-roundMallorca

About this dish

Dark and dense aperitif of quinine and gentian with caramelised sugar, a legacy of 19th-century malaria remedies. With soda water it becomes the classic Mallorcan vermouth: 'palo amb sifó'.

Main ingredients

  • ●quina
  • ●genciana
  • ●sucre caramel·litzat
  • ●alcohol

When it's eaten

Aperitif, 'palo amb sifó' in village bars

Wines & liqueurs