Minty, mildly bitter and sweet, with notes of citrus and spice. We get our passionflower from small farms in some of the most beautiful old farming villages in northern Italy, where Christmas is known as Buon Natale. Italian Christmas traditions are a combination of Christian practices and holdovers from the famous Roman holiday of Saturnalia. With weeks of festivities and feasts, some of these practices were adopted into modern day Christmas traditions.