September 14, 202694
Vecchio Amaro del Capo NV
Caffo's Calabrian flagship, twenty-nine botanicals deep — and a bottle that belongs in the freezer, not the back of a cabinet.
$29 · 35% ABV · Robert Cross
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Every bottle tasted neat at room temperature, scored out of 100, then poured into a cocktail to see whether it can work behind a bar as well as after dinner.
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Caffo's Calabrian flagship, twenty-nine botanicals deep — and a bottle that belongs in the freezer, not the back of a cabinet.
$29 · 35% ABV · Robert Cross
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Milan, 1845: twenty-seven herbs and roots, a year in Slavonian oak, and a menthol chill that numbs the palate.
$36 · 39% ABV · Robert Cross
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Built on Nonino's own cask-aged grape distillate in Percoto — orange zest, thyme and menthol, the silkiest amaro on the shelf.
$52 · 35% ABV · Robert Cross
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A 1901 Sicilian recipe of 26 botanicals grown on Etna's slopes — bitter orange, licorice and a volcanic mineral edge.
$36 · 29% ABV · Robert Cross
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Gentian, wormwood and Slavonian oak — mountain amaro at its most complete, cold after dinner or cutting through rye.
$50 · 21% ABV · Robert Cross
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Bologna, 1885: forty botanicals blended into six aromatic groups, finished with the house's secret Premio — charm before bitterness.
$32 · 23% ABV · Catherine Hale
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Espresso, cocoa and bitter orange in a satin-smooth Sicilian classic that works neat and behind the bar.
$32 · 29% ABV · Robert Cross
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