What is Cocchi Americano?
Cocchi Americano: Italian aromatized white wine with cinchona bark. Used in a Vesper or Corpse Reviver No. 2.
- Category
- Wine & vermouth
- Taste
- Orange, honey, a gentle quinine bitterness.
- Strength
- 16.5% ABV
- Similar to
- Lillet Blanc, dry vermouth
- Also called
- cocchi, americano bianco
The story
Giulio Cocchi, a pastry chef, created it in Asti in 1891. Bartenders now use it in place of the old Kina Lillet that James Bond's Vesper called for.