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Grappa Luca

Name: Grappa Luca
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Grappa; 30 ml Amaro (e.g. Lucano); 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Honey and water syrup; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (6)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Nonino Il Moscato Grappa Monovitigno
1 fl oz	Lucano amaro
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Grappa Luca contains 145 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.6% alc./vol. (31.2° proof)
16.3 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in March 2024 by yours truly at the Clocktower, Rye, Sussex.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

Grappa shines in this bittersweet, sweet 'n' citrus sour, aperitivo or digestivo.

Nonino Il Moscato Grappa Monovitigno 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$77.99 $3.12 per cocktail

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Amaro Lucano 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$29.99 $1.20 per cocktail Amaro Lucano image

$4.32 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 25 cocktails.
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Chris VanDoren 1y

I found this to be overly sweet and syrupy, even with meletti amaro, which I don't find very sweet. Didn't really come together, though I'm enjoying trying out grappa based cocktails.

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