The cocktail Spirito Felix
"Spirito Felix'' is an all-day drink: a spicy, fresh and soft gin sour. Its roots are in what is still called Campania Felix, a region whose land is rich in culture and traditions, with a mild climate and fertile soil. Among the ingredients of the drink are lemons from the Amalfi Coast, Corbarino tomatoes and pisto: a mix of cloves, cinnamon, pepper, coriander and star anise, widely used in the local Campania pastry art. The drink is garnished with a sage leaf, to balance the olfactory profile. "Spirito Felix" contains the story of Cinquanta Spirito Italiano: the "spirit" represents the team, a family ready to welcome anyone with a smile; "felix" is intended in its meaning of fortunate, but also positive, happy. Confucius would be proud of the boys of the Cinquanta team: they are lucky to do what they do and are happy doing it.
The barman, Natale Palmieri
Natale Palmieri, originally from the province of Salerno, born in 1986, soon started working in the kitchen, travelling between Italy and Europe. Back home, he began his entrepreneurial path by opening a tobacconist seller slash bar and thus approaching the world of mixology. Driven by the support of trainers like Dannis Zoppi and coming in contact with Planet One and the Jerry Thomas Speakeasy in Rome, he decided to pursue a career as a bartender; the victory of the "Quinta Essentiae Competition" introduced him as assistant to Salvatore Scamardella at Piazza Vanvitelli in Castellammare di Stabia. In 2019 he decided to join forces with Alfonso Califano, to give life to the concept "Cinquanta Spirito Italiano," an Italian bar wishing to recover the spirit of aggregation typical of the neighbourhood bar, inspired by the 50s but with a modern and current style, a true "twist on classics."
Ingredients:
4,5 cl Seven Hills
2,25 cl Corbarino tomato syrup
0,75 cl Limoncello Pallini
2,25 cl Lemon juice
0,75 cl Salty pisto infusion
0,5 cl Sugar syrup
Technique: Build
Glass: Tumbler Basso
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