Amaretto Day in Canberra

Sweet, sour, fluffy and delicious: the Amaretto Sour is one cocktail that’s stood the test of time since it was first popularised in the seventies. But the history of Disaronno – the liqueur at the core of any great Amaretto Sour – goes back much further.

Disaronno’s origin story dates all the way back to the 1500s, when a Saronno church commissioned the artist Bernardino Luini to paint a fresco of the Madonna. He found inspiration in a young, widowed innkeeper, who made a delicious liqueur from a secret recipe of herbs and fruits steeped in apricot kernel oil. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Wednesday April 19 marks Amaretto Day, where cocktail enthusiasts around the world band together to pay tribute to this classic liqueur. To celebrate this year, Disaronno has teamed up with some of Canberra’s top bars and restaurants who’ll each serve up their own limited-edition Disaronno-inspired cocktails, as well as their take on the Amaretto Sour, starting on Amaretto Day.

In the city centre, head to Bar Rochford in the Melbourne Building or cocktail bar Hippo Co to taste their creative interpretations of the historic cocktail. A stone’s throw away in Barton, head to rooftop bar Leyla and the warm leather interiors of Ostani. And in Ainslie, it’s all about Wakefield’s Bar & Wine Room and The Inn.

All you need to do? Just rock up to any of these venues and ask for an Amaretto Sour or Disaronno cocktail special. Cin cin!

This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with Disaronno.