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Reno

Aperitivo/aperitif · Herbal

4.4 58 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/6 oz Amaro (e.g. Montenegro)
2/3 oz Gentian liqueur
5/6 oz Americano bianco
1/6 oz Rosolio Bergamotto

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of scorched lemon wedge.

Method

  1. 3 THROW all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with lemon wedge.

Flavour profile

17.6% alc./vol. · 1 standard drink · 188 calories

History

Amaro and gentian flavours dominate this mellow, bittersweet aperitif.

Giorgio Ferrarese created this drink in 2018 at The Holy Birds restaurant in London, England. Ferrarese recounts that "The story which inspired this cocktail took place during WWII on 21st April 1945, when the allied forces planned to retake Bologna. Polish, English, American and French troops helped Italian partisans to capture the city in a very unusual battlefield, a river called Reno. I used ingredients that remind me of the forces involved in the battle. Amaro Montenegro symbolises the city. Cocchi Americano to celebrate the partisan's movement born in Asti. Italicus represents braveness. And finally, Suze, this sophisticated liqueur de gentian, used to remember the aid received by the allies. Without this strong bitter touch, my cocktail wouldn't be the same, and the battle wouldn't have been won!"

Created by Giorgio Ferrarese