Fernet Branca is out of Milan, Italy. They make this bitters since 1845. They still exist as of 2026. It was once marketed as a cure for various ailments, and contained opiates, as did quite a lot back then. The opiates were later removed so it could be legally sold into the US market. Today it is used as a mixer for alcoholic drinks, or in some places, mixed with Coca Cola to drink, with Argentina single-handedly consuming 75% of the production in this manner, by some estimates.
Other examples below.
I’ve never tasted it, but now I want to try some that’s been sitting around for 50 years or so.
The replacement bottle looked like the bottle of the secont poster, of that I’m quite sure (but with a screw cork), the older was maybe looking like the one on the first poster, but I’m less sure, I had already thrown away the empy old one a while back when it dawned on us that it was a little treasure, but IIRC it was somehow in the same vein. It sure had a screw cork.
I mean if you go Fernet Branca hunting 😁