Name: Il Viaggio
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Amaretto liqueur; 30 ml Rabarbaro liqueur; 3 dash Creole bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Adriatico Amaretto Liqueur

1 fl oz

Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro

3 dash

Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

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 Il Viaggio contains 221 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
18.37% alc./vol. (36.75° proof)
15 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Jeremy Harrold 42w

I used Maraska Green Walnut liqueur and ended up with a rich, coffee flavoured and very pleasant drink.

Laurie Cavanaugh 1y

I added a couple of dashes of rhubarb bitters. Will definitely make this again, but might try reversing the proportion of amaretto to rabarbaro.

Jacques Gaudin Premium Member 2y

It is a sweet drink, but balanced with bitterness which makes it interesting to me. I like this combination of contrasting flavours.

Luca Viviani Premium Member 3y

I enjoyed the flavour combination but, as expected from the ingredients, it is quite sweet. Maybe too much.

Simon, allow me a correction. The name of the drink should probably be "Il viaggio", with one L, which means "The travel" in Italian, not "I travel"! "I travel" would translate as "Io viaggio". Sorry for being pedantic!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Many thanks, Luca. Now corrected.

Mike Gibb Premium Member 1y

I'd translate "Il viaggio" as "The Journey"

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Dee Stump 4y

I subbed Nux Alpina for Amaretto, Absinthe for Peychaud's, and no garnish. Bittersweet, smoked coffee, herbal menthol, absolutely wonderful. I'm sure the original is good too! :)

Jason Dworkin 4y

Definitely not a 9 on dry/sour. Very sweet. But switch out the amaretto for a walnut liqueur (I had Nero) and the drink feels somewhat less sweet and more like a smokey coffee. Much improved!