Name: Fall Back
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Applejack brandy; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Amaro (e.g. Nonino); 2 dash Creole bitters

Ingredients

1 fl oz

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

1 fl oz

Applejack brandy

³⁄₄ fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Amaro Nonino Quintessentia

2 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Fall Back contains 214 calories

Alcohol content:

2 standard drinks
28.97% alc./vol. (57.94° proof)
28.5 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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John CARR Premium Member 17w

As we teeter on the precipice of civilisation descent, I drink to an autumn of decline and release. Such tasty imbibings as this may not be available in a century, but what we will have we will likely treasure much more. To my fellow freaks and outsiders, HAPPY Pride month, whatever that means to you and yours 🌈🧸💚💛🍁💋✌️. Let the punk roll on 🪐🚀🐐🤷‍♀️🧝‍♀️🍤🏰🐝🌙🎈🌏

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 17w

Sure, but you have to tell us which cocktail you enjoyed prior to posting your exuberant note. Maybe we could all benefit from one of them.

John CARR Premium Member 17w

Haha whilst sipping on this very recipe. I may also have had a vieux carré with Martell blue Swift before, but this one really hit the spot! Avallen in place of Apple Jack worked fine for me. Now back to geopolitical and sociocultural contemplations…!

Juniper Lately 40w

Didn’t have applejack so used 20 ml of brandy and about 15ml of fresh apple cider - delicious 😋

John CARR Premium Member 15w

Sounds perfect, juniper.

Mike Premium Member 45w

Excellent flavor profile. Peychaud's peeks through and adds just the right icing on the cake.

Rittenhouse, Laird's 86, Rockwell sweet vermouth, Nonino, Peychaud's.

Served over a big rock in an OF glass but up in a coupe would work as well.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 48w

Good depth and profile of flavours. Will try earlier in the evening with a fresher palate to judge more carefully.

Annechien Premium Member 1y

Ooooh, I like this a lot! I used rittenhouse rye, daron calvados, carpano antica and nonino. The smell is gorgeous. Apple, orange and warm spice. Perfect for autumn. It’s sweet enough for me. And quite boozy! I might need a bit more ice next time.

Marius Schaub Premium Member 1y

Always a nice cocktail to ring in the autumn season. If you're in Europe and use Calvados instead of Applejack, I would add half a bar spoon of maple syrup to add a bit more sweetness.

James Brooke Premium Member 1y

Please can someone give me some advice. I don't have Amaro Nonino, but I do have Amaro Montenegro and Amaro Averna. Which one would be better as a substitute in this cocktail?

Paloma Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Hi James, they’re both quite different to Amaro Nonino but of the two the Averna is closer.

James Brooke Premium Member 1y

Thank you. I thought that might be the case.
That brings up the question of how many different amaros one needs in order to cover all the amaro styles? I suspect the answer is too many for my storage space and budget!

Simon Difford, John CARR Continue thread (2 replies)

Vaclav Alex Kyslik 25w

Hey James, I guess you've already figured it out. But for other people perhaps: When I bought a Nonino, I thought it's not so far from Averna's cola-caramel-orange profile, but weaker, more delicate in flavour. My take would be to sub it with Averna, but 1:1 with neutral alcohol like vodka or neutral rum (grappa would be the best actually) to dilute it and bump up the abv to Nonino's 35% (70 proof). Hope it helps.

Matt Premium Member 1y

Very delicious Manhattan variant - similar to a sweet Manhattan, or a High Ryeser - except the applejack provides a leading apple flavor note. Excellent, but sweet, and boozy.

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