Cap Corse Mattei Quinquina Rouge Aperitif
In 1872, a merchant named Louis-Napoleon Mattei named his aperitif wine after his native Cap Corse, a peninsula of Corsica that juts northward into the Mediterranean. Among the most famous of French Quinquina, enjoyed for generations by visitors and residents of the island of Corsica. It is composed of a variety of local and exotic spices, walnuts and cinchona bark (quinine) on a base of Corsican Muscat and Vermentinu mistelles.