Name: Sanguinello Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Red bitter liqueur; 30 ml Limoncello liqueur; 30 ml Blood orange juice

Sanguinello Cocktail
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
1 oz	Pallini Limoncello liqueur
1 oz	Blood orange juice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of blood orange slice wheel.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with orange slice.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Bitter notes are balanced by sweet, lemony limoncello with blood orange juice contributing citrus freshness.

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History:

This well-established Italian classic is named after one of the three most common varieties of blood oranges; the Sanguinello orange is native to Spain.

Nutrition:

One serving of Sanguinello Cocktail contains 99 calories

Alcohol content:

0.8 standard drinks
12.5% alc./vol. (12.5° proof)
11.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Yossi Burg

13th June at 09:19

Goldilocks moment- balanced perfectly with Luxardo Bitter, Luxardo Limoncello and blood oranges picked from home. Not too sour, not too sweet- just right.

Egg McKenzie

1st March at 21:20

i upped the campari and bllooood orange for a more bitter experience and it was better

Avery Garnett

17th November 2024 at 20:07

Whilst the taste is overwhelmingly that of campari, I think the quality of the drink hinges on the limoncello. I used the dregs of a not-so-good one and it was fairly flat outside of the campari flavours. I imagine with a good limoncello this would be a good drink rather than a pretty okay one.

Peter McCarthy

19th October 2024 at 19:06

I wonder if the Limoncello brand is what's making the sweetness vary so much for everyone?! (It is also using 2 liqueurs and a fruit juice, though, so you're bound to have a decent amount of sugar...) I made this with Campari, Pallini, and fresh blood orange and it feels like a good balance of bittersweet. Sweet at first, then Campari herbal orange bitterness, which then fades and mellows out to a nice mild bittersweetness with subtle lemon and blood orange leaving you wanting another sip.

Steve Erwood-Heijselaar

15th March 2024 at 15:35

What a fascinating drink! Some find it too bitter, some find it too sweet ... it's the Marmite of the cocktail world, it seems. For myself, this just got upgraded from a 4.5 last time round (when it was blood orange season) to a 5 this time. Maybe it's the quality and characteristics of the blood orange juice that ultimately makes the difference?

Peter McCarthy

19th October 2024 at 18:24

I'm curious if you're referring to using possibly better quality blood oranges or if you used a different brand of bottled juice.

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Paul Wilson

4th March 2023 at 04:59

very sweet, may add sum lemon juice next time

BETHANY GARNER

10th February 2022 at 01:22

I opted for Select instead of Campari and was happy with this citrus forward, slightly bitter, easy drinking cocktail.

Egg McKenzie

29th January 2023 at 19:28

ok yes good suggestion i'll try that ANOTHER TIME thank you

Richard Christmas

7th February 2022 at 18:21

A little too sweet for me, but the addition of a couple of oz. of tonic water makes it very pleasant indeed.

Braden Pendlebury

20th December 2021 at 01:09

Great use of Limoncello. The tartness of the limoncello is nicely balanced by the bitterness of the Campari.

Luca Viviani

5th September 2021 at 18:31

It seems to me that Limoncello's sweetness and flavour take the whole scene in this cocktail. After trying it in the 1:1:1 proportions as proposed, unlike Angela below I preferred to cut down Limoncello a bit, and I liked it better that way.

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