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Amalfi Limonata (Dante West Village)
551 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014
Last Monday, as summer’s first heat wave took hold, I had an afternoon meeting at Dante West Village with the Dante team and Nima Ansari, the Spirits Buyer and Manager at Astor Wines & Spirits, to discuss a collaborative vintage amaro event we have in the works. As soon as I slid into the air-conditioned comfort of a corner banquette I ordered an Amalfi Limonta, my first of what will surely be many this summer. It’s an extremely refreshing blend of MALFY Lemon gin, limoncello, simple syrup, lemon juice, and lemon curd, topped with San Pellegrino Limonta over a mountain of pebble ice and garnished with an aromatic mint sprig.
Never one to arrive empty handed, Nima pulled an unopened bottle of Zucca from the 1960s for us to taste after lunch. It was so good—earthy, a little chocolatey, still hanging on to a distinctive bitterness—that we each had two glasses.
Gin Rickey (The Long Island Bar)
110 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11201
