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Little Italy
This rye whiskey-based, Manhattan-like, bittersweet cocktail is a great digestivo
Simon Sedgley
6th September 2025 at 14:08
We love the original, classic recipe here but decided to go totally Italy and substituted il Moscato di Nonino Grappa for the Rye Whisky; we also substituted Amaro Nonino Quintessentia, 5ml Campari and two dashes of Orange Bitters for the Cynar. Maybe just another way to toast the azzura peninsula.
6th September 2025 at 17:27
Perhaps "Piccola Italia"?
Very tasty! I prefer with a smidgen less grappa:
45 Moscato grappa
22.5 Rosso vermouth
10 Amaro Nonino
5 Red bitter liqueur
2 dash Orange bitters
Very tasty! I prefer with a smidgen less grappa:
45 Moscato grappa
22.5 Rosso vermouth
10 Amaro Nonino
5 Red bitter liqueur
2 dash Orange bitters
7th September 2025 at 12:07
A perfect finesse on the Grappa. And a perfectly apt name, hat-tipping as it does (in 'total' Italian) the ancestral relationship to the progenitor. Bravo.