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\"img_1008.jpg\"<\/a>A friend of ours found this bottle while cleaning out a house in Indiana. He had no idea what it was, but brought it home. We opened this bottle and sampled one of the most incredible flavors ever. A search of the internet has shown nothing. We have no idea if it is still made or imported. I assume not imported for sure. I had tasted nothing so wonderful in my life until we opened up a vintage bottle of Okolehao recently<\/a>. That flavor was very close. We finished off this bottle and hated to see it empty.<\/p>\n

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Update 7-21-2012:<\/strong> After searching for these last 6 years, and many dead ends, I just got another bottle of this magical elixir. It is far better than I recalled, and I must say that comparing it to okolehao is not accurate. It is far superior. Like nothing else. It has notes of curry, cinnamon, honey, licurice\u00c2\u00a0and an almost menthol, minty finish that is amazing.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 8-25-16:<\/strong> THIS FRENCH SITE <\/a>digs deep into Mazarine which is a fake version of Benedictine it seems. I would tend to agree as the closet I have come to re-creating it is to take 1 part Benedictine and 1 part B&B with 1\/2 part Fernet.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2018:<\/strong> Further updates indicate this is another knock-off of Benedictine. They are heavy handed with imitators adn tended to litigate them out of existence, which is likely what happened here. I have a couple of bottles of this now, but am always interested in more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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