Lovage Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a tall, robust perennial of the carrot family, Apiaceae, native to the mountains of the eastern Mediterranean and Iran and grown in European kitchen gardens since the Middle Ages. It grows 1.5-2.5 m tall with hollow, ridged stems, large, glossy, deeply divided leaves resembling celery and flat umbels of small greenish-yellow flowers. The whole plant smells and tastes strongly of celery with a warm, slightly musky note, and the thick, grey-brown root is aromatic. We extract the dried leaf and the dried root separately.