Rino Dondi Pinton, the inventor of Cynar, has died

He was 103 years old. Bitter-liqueur was depopulated in Italy during the economic boom (ANSA)

He had been named 'Knight of the Grand Cross' by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and 'excellent Padovano' by the mayor of his city

Rome, March 3, 2025 — Certainly the recipe for overcoming the 'wear and tear of modern life', Rino Dondi Pinton, inventor of the bitter Cynar, had it. The entrepreneur died at 103 years old in his home in Padua. It was he who developed the recipe, still secret, for the first artichoke-flavored bitter, which exploded also thanks to the popular commercial with Ernesto Calindri sipping it, sitting in the middle of the traffic at the intersection of…