Cocktails with Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
Amaro Nonino Quintessentia is a grappa-based Italian amaro, a bittersweet herbal liqueur infused with botanicals and aged in barrels.
ABV35%
Taste profile
Silky and rounded on the palate, closing on a gentle, lingering bitterness; the aroma carries dried apricot, orange peel, caramel and a warm herbal note.
How it's used
Bartenders pour it stirred as a low-proof modifier, where its barrel-aged sweetness softens and lengthens a spirit-forward build; it also stands alone over ice as a digestivo, and is dosed in modest measures rather than dashes.
Substitutes for Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
Another soft, grape-based amaro of comparable sweetness and moderate bitterness.
Description
This amaro is built on a grape-distillate base rather than a neutral spirit, then macerated with herbs and roots and matured in oak. It sits toward the softer, sweeter end of the amaro spectrum, with a caramel-amber colour drawn from the base and the barrel.
Origin
Amaro belongs to the Italian tradition of bittersweet herbal liqueurs taken as digestivi, a category long produced across Italy.
