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This thread has been quiet for a year so I hope no one minds if I bump it. My wife and I will be in Rome for three days next month, and would love to have some up-to-date restaurant recommendations. We're well-traveled, and we do go in for high-end meals a few times a year. But as this is the first visit to Italy for both of us, I think on this trip we're interested in more modest options (particularly in terms of production values, i.e. no La Pergola for us this time); so I'd love to hear suggestions for where to go for a variety of the very best of traditional Roman cooking. Especially, if any of the restaurants discussed upthread are known to have gone downhill (or to have closed), that would be very helpful information.

OK, bottle cracked open. Some crystallized sugar already on the rim of the bottle. Alcohol dominates the nose, ahead of the the violet. The violet is certainly there in the flavor, though not nearly as overpoweringly as in the R&W Creme de Violette. I'll guess I'll have to track down someone else in town with a bottle in order to see if this is how it's supposed to be....

A friend of mine recently sent me a bottle of Creme Yvette (55 proof) as a gift. Unfortunately he did not realize that I was out of town (and did not tell me about the gift) and so the bottle sat in a UPS facility for around 10 days before it could be delivered. To make matters worse, I live in a place with hot summers; so between the time spent in transit and the time in the UPS facility, the bottle has probably been at 100 degrees Fahrenheit for around two weeks. Given the duration, how seriously might the spirit have been damaged? The bottle was of course unopened during this time period, so that's a possible saving grace -- but the alcohol content is in the critical range, so I'm still concerned.