Name: Santa Maria (by Dani Umoette)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Mezcal; 20 ml Amaretto liqueur; 5 ml Cynar/carciofo amaro; 2.5 ml Banana liqueur

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

²⁄₃ fl oz

Adriatico Amaretto Liqueur

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Cynar or other carciofo amaro

¹⁄₁₂ fl oz

Giffard Banane du Brésil liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a SHOT GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

Makes 2 cocktails

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into two chilled shot glasses.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over both glasses and discard.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
27.83% alc./vol. (55.65° proof)
18.8 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in May 2021 by Daniele Umoette as a parting gift to us. What inspired him, "The other day I was listening to Blondie's "Maria" and it is indeed one of my favourite songs and that did the trick. The song talks about this multifaceted woman called Maria, so I tried to reinterpret her qualities through my personal imagination."

Comments & Discussion

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Matt Premium Member 20w

An unexpected and interesting combination - not appealing enough to be a favorite but it is good. Quite sweet - the amaretto and hint of banana start the taste, with the cynar bitter following with the smoky mezcal. Mezcal lingers in the finish as all else dr0ps off quickly.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Such a charming cocktail...perfect for a couple of love-birds about to head off to a show or party. Decoding the recipe, we concluded that Maria has a smoky, sultry voice, beautiful almond eyes, an occasionally bitter tongue but more often a smile as sunny as a bunch of ripe bananas. We went by it a second time by reducing the Amaretto to 15ml, increasing the Cynar to 7.5ml and upping the liqueur to 5ml...for us, the original is the more charming and our variant is the slightly more deep and serious.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 3y

A touch sweet (used a bargain amaretto), but wow not too shabby. Wouldn't alter the specs, though I'm not really gettting the banana and only a subtle hint of the Cynar. How about y'all? (2 May 2023, 2:50p)