A-18

"Deserted highway on the edge of the sea"... here, friends of the east coast of Sicily, follow the words of Venditti and put on your comfortable car, drive down the famed highway Messina-Catania and come in my beautiful Messina.

In Midtown, inside the recreational harbour, you can admire an enchanting place lain down to surface of the Strait of Messina, almost suspended between sky and sea and from which you  enjoy a breathtaking view: the Marina of the Neptune Yachting Club.

The Bartender Christian Costantino has celebrated the motorway section just travelled to arrive at shore of the Strai with wise hands and a good dose of originality, creating a cocktail inspired to the perfumes of Sicily: A18.

The elements, in fact, are all totally made in Sicily: a mix of carob syrup, red oranges, Limone Interdonato, bitter "Amara" produced on the slopes of the Etna, white wine "Secca del Capo" and a lemon foam aromatized to the Passito wine.

The look is well groomed and elegant.

The cocktail, clear and orange light coloured, is served, in a glass "Old-fashioned" (of cylindrical form, low and rounded) and we recommends to appreciate it to the best to taste as appetizer, before dinner.

On the top of the glass, to embellish the mixture, a dried orange slice and some colored floral decoration are placed on the foam to the Passito.

The aromatic nuances of the Passito wine of the Aeolian islands, no doubt, enrich the aromatized lemon foam and give to taste a first effect sweet and fresh at the same time.

In fact, the Sicilian citrus aromas break the important taste given by the Etnean bitter and a light aroma of Campari and they good marry with the delicacy of Sicilian raw materials, fancifully mixted inside this savory drink.

A cocktail certainly succeeded and refreshing, valued ally to fight the heat of the Sicilian summer evenings.

Well done to the inventor of the A18 for this magic love dedication to our beautiful Sicily.

Cheers!

LadySirah

Marina del Nettuno  Yacthing Club, Messina, Viale della Libertà, Batteria Masotto
https://www.marinadelnettuno.it/