Rosso.
Blood orange · Rhubarb · Gentian
The classic. Bright red, properly bitter, finished with orange peel. Pour it over ice and leave it alone.
Best at 17:30
All the Bitter.None of the Proof.
Rosa.
Pink grapefruit · Rosemary · Pink pepper
The softer one. Sour first, bitter second, with a resin edge from the rosemary that keeps it honest.
Best at 18:15
Chinotto.
Chinotto · Bay leaf · Cocoa husk
The dark one. Bittersweet Ligurian citrus that tastes a little like cola and nothing like it at all.
Best at 19:00
Bitter, on purpose.
Most soft drinks chase sweet. Sorso is built the way an aperitivo is: bitter up front, so your appetite turns up in time for dinner.
Real roots, not “bitter flavouring”
Gentian root and bitter orange peel, steeped cold for 48 hours and filtered twice.
Zero proof, all ritual
The glass, the ice, the slice. Everything about the hour except the morning after.
5 g of sugar a bottle
Enough to round off the bitter, not enough to bury it.
Serve it like an aperitivo.
- Fill a wine glass with ice. All the way up.
- Pour one bottle over the ice, slowly, down the side.
- Add a wheel of orange. Grapefruit, if it’s Rosa.
- Put something salty next to it. Olives, crisps, a friend.
Seven-ish.
Where the hour actually happens. Tag yours with #orasorso and we’ll put the good ones here.
Seaside · 18:55Atrani, the long way down Piazza · 19:10Cin cin, on the corner At the counter · 19:05One, before the others arrive Seaside · 17:50Orange, green, repeat Piazza · 19:20Watching the street go by At the counter · 18:20Olives, crisps, Chinotto
