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

Il Viaggio
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Disaronno amaretto
1 oz	Amaro Sfumato Rabarbaro
3 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over a chunk of block ice).

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

The ingredients might suggest that this cocktail should be stirred – I tried, but it benefits from the dilution and life that shaking imparts. After some elbow grease, you'll have a delicious bittersweet, herbal almond after-dinner drink.

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History:

Created in October 2016 by Wouter Bosch, Senior Bartender at The Duchess in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The name is Italian for The Travel.

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
18.33% alc./vol. (18.33° proof)
13.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Jacques Gaudin

16th August 2024 at 21:42

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

Luca Viviani

8th March 2023 at 22:12

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

9th March 2023 at 08:29

Many thanks, Luca. Now corrected.

Dee Stump

9th May 2022 at 03:48

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

7th December 2021 at 00:41

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!