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Tradition Bündner Röteli: a full-bodied juice 20 Balance is the name of the game, says Rico Kindschi, Producer of Kindschi Bündner Röteli
Bündner 'Zwipf': The RhB 'Marenda' (snack) box is filled with Bündner specialities <strong>–</strong> including a Röteli from Kindschi. 33 No need to be ashamed if you’ve not (yet) heard of Bündner Röteli! But we can promise you that once you have tasted this spicy, dark red traditional drink, you will love it. It may put you in holiday mood - or make you feel homesick. People who are on their way to the Landwasser Valley and Davos often stop off in Schiers for a glass of Röteli produced by Kindschi Söhne AG. "My grandfather was a charmer. He went from one farm to the next, wooing all the farm girls. Surreptitiously, he managed to elicit each girl’s secret recipe. And that’s how we created our own secret recipe for Bündner Röteli", says Rico Kindschi with a straight face that reveals the dry humour typical of mountain people. This wine merchant and producer of schnapps, who lives in Davos, is something of a sly old dog when it comes to the ingredients of this fine product, which has recently also found its way into the supermarkets. For centuries, people from Graubünden have enthused about this cherry liqueur, which is actually made from dried cherries. Who invented it? The Walser folk Rötelis used to be two a penny. Or, in the words of Rico Kindschi, "They say there are as many Röteli recipes as there are mothers-in-law." Every farmer’s wife in and around Davos, in Prättigau, Domleschg and even the cantonal capital of Chur would prepare her own Röteli. Wherever people drank Röteli, there would be a Walser settlement nearby. This tribe of mountain dwellers, who migrated long ago from the Valais over the passes into Graubünden, invented this amazing drink which later became wide- 21
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