Amalfi Switch

Serve in a

Garnish:

Fine half-rim of lemon salt applied to one side of the glass, giving a savoury citrus lift with each sip while leaving the opposite side clean. Finished with a small expressed lemon peel garnish clipped neatly to the rim, adding fresh lemon oil aroma and a simple visual echo of the Pallini Limoncello at the heart of the drink.

How to make:

Chill a Nick & Nora glass or small coupe.
Prepare the garnish first by adding a fine sea salt half-rim to the glass. Keep the rim light so it seasons the drink rather than dominating it.
Add the following ingredients to a cocktail shaker:
40 ml Pallini Limoncello
30 ml Mezcal Unión
17.5 ml fresh lemon juice
10 ml Oloroso sherry
2.5 ml sugarcane syrup
Fill the shaker with plenty of ice and shake hard until well chilled. I find this works best with a proper firm shake, as the drink needs enough chill and dilution to balance the limoncello, mezcal and lemon.
Fine strain into the chilled glass.
Express a strip of fresh lemon zest over the surface of the drink, then use it as the garnish.
The finished drink should be served straight up, cold and bright, with Pallini’s lemon character at the front, followed by mezcal smoke, dry sherry depth and a clean salted citrus finish.