Name: Italian Gentleman
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Bourbon whiskey; 30 ml Red bitter liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Orange bitters; 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

1 fl oz

Italian red bitter liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

3 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist. (Or some prefer a lemon slice wheel).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

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 Italian Gentleman contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
19.29% alc./vol. (38.59° proof)
16.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Leslie Premium Member 31w

This is the first time I have ever understood how wonderful Campari could be! So amazing!

Chris Brislawn 1y

Took S. McPhail's advice and made this with a 3:2 ratio of whiskey:red bitter (i.e., 1.5 oz whiskey). Even with 1.5 oz bourbon (Oregon Spirits) the whiskey doesn't dominate and the drink seems well-balanced. Lacking Strucchi Red Bitter, I used Martini & Rossi Riserva Speciale Bitter. I also omitted the sugar syrup to see how the drink would fare; it was "lively", i.e., bitter and sour and *just* sweet enough for us. It might be best with 1/2 tsp (1/12 oz) rich sugar syrup, though to each their own and my wife says it's fine with none. Seems like more of an excellent, complex whiskey sour variant than a Boulevardier variant, which is how I'm filing it in my personal cocktail list.