Delicious depth of flavour (we used Amaro Lucano), although we were surprised by the 9 rating on the Strength/taste scale: we thought it a relatively mellow drink.

I also lacked meletti so used a variety of medium orange amari. Very very tasty. A reasonable challenger to the Paper Plane.

No Amaro Meletti or Silvio so I, too, used Montenegro. Not your standard rye cocktail; Clapham comes through again. The chocolate bitters (I used Angostura) are quite good in this, tying together the unconventional combination of ingredients.

I had to substitute Meletti with an opened bottle of Montenegro which led to a nice drink. The chocolate bitters work well.

Didn’t have Meletti, but Amaro di Silvio worked perfectly.