Name: Little Italy
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Cynar/carciofo amaro

Ingredients

1 ³⁄₄ fl oz

Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cynar or other carciofo amaro

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Little Italy contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
28.28% alc./vol. (56.56° proof)
25.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Comments & Discussion

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David Mercer 2w

Ok, I "cheated" a little. I added a bar spoon (5 ml?) of cherry syrup and 7.5 ml of rich Syrup to give a little added sweetness. For my palate, it totally worked. Cheers, all!

jill andrews 22w

Excellent! Love the bitter edge.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 28w

Wow, this is a good one! I used Cynar 70 and a long stir. Perfection.

Egg McKenzie 35w

well yes this is good. nice little bitterness to this manhattan.

Gareth Hives Premium Member 36w

Maybe better in an old fashioned glass with ice, definitely was better with a little dilution. Just a smidge.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

We love the original, classic recipe here but decided to go totally Italy and substituted il Moscato di Nonino Grappa for the Rye Whisky; we also substituted Amaro Nonino Quintessentia, 5ml Campari and two dashes of Orange Bitters for the Cynar. Maybe just another way to toast the azzura peninsula.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Perhaps "Piccola Italia"?
Very tasty! I prefer with a smidgen less grappa:
45 Moscato grappa
22.5 Rosso vermouth
10 Amaro Nonino
5 Red bitter liqueur
2 dash Orange bitters

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

A perfect finesse on the Grappa. And a perfectly apt name, hat-tipping as it does (in 'total' Italian) the ancestral relationship to the progenitor. Bravo.

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Dave D. Premium Member 1y

Tried today with Old Grandad Bottled-in-Bond bourbon ….I think I prefer Rye…..but very good ….I added Old Grandad to my cabinet…

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Much as we love Rye, with this one we usually go with Cognac instead. If it's Rye, we'll add a dash of orange bitters; if Cognac, orange zest is enough. A classic cocktail.