ItaliCup

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (18 ratings)

Photographed in an UB Ginza Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Ingredients:
1 12 oz Italicus liqueur
34 oz Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
2 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
34 oz Thomas Henry Soda Water
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered Fragata Green Olive and grapefruit wedge.
  3. STIR first 3 ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda water.
  5. Garnish with grapefruit wedge and skewered olive.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 3/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
Cocktail of the day:

1st September 2025 is National Rosolio Day

Review:

Sour grapefruit and sweet bergamot balance each other in this refreshingly light aperitivo.

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AKA: Italicus Cup

Nutrition:

One serving of ItaliCup contains 96 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 0.5 standard drinks
  • 7.87% alc./vol. (7.87° proof)
  • 7.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Morten Carlsbaek’s Avatar Morten Carlsbaek
9th March at 16:50
I tried with 1 part Italicus to 1,5 part normal tonic from Fever-Tree. Excellent and refreshing drink with all notes from the Italicus present in a more descrete way. According to rosolioitalicus.com, an Italicus Cup is 1 part Italicus with 2 parts either tonic water or grapefruit soda.
22nd December 2022 at 14:32
Very light and refreshing but the grapefruit barely comes through. Perhaps I need to use different fruits.