Name: Witches' Flight
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Strega liqueur; 22.5 ml Amaro Nonino Quintessentia; 22.5 ml Lemon juice

Witches' Flight
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Photographed in a Speakeasy Coupe 8.5oz

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Bourbon whiskey
³⁄₄ oz	Liquore Strega
³⁄₄ oz	Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
RIM glass with sugar (moisten the outside edge with orange juice and dip into sugar).
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This cocktail harnesses the flavour of Strega in an after-dinner cocktail and as its creator says, the sugar rim "brings out the tartness in the drink."

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History:

Created in 2020 by Eran Guter, "cocktail enthusiast from Haifa, Israel" who says, "It is a distant relative of Sam Ross' Paper Plane, with a very different, complex and bright flavor profile, which showcases the Strega yet in perfect harmony with the other ingredients. I named the cocktail Witches' Flight after the magnificent painting by Francisco Goya."

Nutrition:

One serving of Witches' Flight contains 170 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
22.06% alc./vol. (22.06° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Yorey C

23rd November 2024 at 02:35

i cut the lemon by 25% and its still too tangy! shucks :s

Yorey C

23rd November 2024 at 03:27

and sweet. its also too sweet. my dad would like this tho

Frederic D.

15th December 2022 at 00:53

This is very nice. Well balanced, with the Strega and Nonino at the forefront but not overpowering the contribution of the other elements.

Aileen Antonier

24th May 2022 at 02:33

This is scrumptious. Dry enough to not be limited to a digestif. Made it with Booker’s.

Calvin Grant

21st March 2022 at 02:15

Strega and Nonino are the stars here and shine bright together they do!

Donald Draper

28th October 2021 at 16:42

I do not have Amaro Nonino，made this with Montenegro , it's pretty good .

G. M. Genovese

27th July 2021 at 14:31

Strega is (based on one experience with it) similar enough to Chartreuse jaune... Kitchen sink shake with Evan Williams and lime... Worked quite well, and the lime seemed to be curiously extra enhanced, hmm...

Laura Poehlman

21st April 2020 at 23:53

Excellent riff on a Paper Plane. I think it would be delicious with scotch whiskey as well.

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