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Ritorno Alle Radici (Back To The Roots)

After dinner/digestif

4.2 16 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Scotch whisky
2/3 oz Pedro Ximénez sherry
1/2 oz Gentian liqueur
1 dash Chocolate bitters
1 inch Vanilla pod

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Method

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and long cinnamon stick.
  3. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

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History

Rich liquid Christmas pudding flavours of Pedro Ximénez laced with Scotch whisky, balanced by subtle gentian and chocolate bitterness.

This recipe is an adaptation from one created in 2017 by Elia Doro at Dry Martini Bar in Barcelona, Spain. Elia Doro stated, "When I first started to elaborate this cocktail I was thinking how to exalt the bitterness of the gentian, so I decided to make an appetizer, which is typical in my region of Italy and very popular in my city, Padua. As I am in Spain now I used Pedro Jimenez sherry wine as the sweet ingredient, that combined with the scotch will create a nice taste when you start drinking it, and then comes the taste of the Suze that leaves a really nice and soft bitterness."

Created by Elia Doro