Rachele Torlasco Bosca, an distinguished member of the Bosca family, a scholar and connoisseur of the beneficial qualities of many wild plants, spent her life in the search of the perfect product based on herbs, which contained the quality to invigorate the body and spirit. It is said that in the 50’s, during a dinner, she was particularly impressed by the tales on the extraordinary benefits towards liver stimulation and digestion of Nizza Monferrato cardoon. Fast forward and the final formula was defined when it was discovered that the cardoon and 23 other herbs, expertly dosed through a secret recipe, when handled through a wine-based process would lead to the best compendium: this was the genesis Cardamaro, the Wine Bitter, the only bitter based on cardoon.