Ciao Bella

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (5 ratings)

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 oz Acqua Bianca liqueur
1 oz White crème de cacao liqueur
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare mint leaf for garnish.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
  5. Garnish with mint leaf.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 4/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 4/10

Review:

Use a great quality white crème de cacao alongside Aqua Bianca and you'll have a surprisingly well-balanced complex and delicately chocolaty freshening after-dinner cocktail.

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History:

Created in 2020 by Salvatore "The Maestro" Calabrese at the Donovan Bar, London, England.

Alcohol content:

  • 0.8 standard drinks
  • 19.29% alc./vol. (19.29° proof)
  • 11.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Shogi Redbrook’s Avatar Shogi Redbrook
5th May 2024 at 22:12
Obviously pretty sweet, but maybe not as much as you'd expect. Perfumed, floral and minty with a distant bitterness but without the overpowering, industrial menthol blast you sometimes get with menthe pastille. Interesting digestif.