In between the spiritual and the profane, we consume the host that garnishes the mixed drink: it is the painstaking recreation of the fresco on the ceiling by Cesare Rotta which depicts the personifications of music, painting, sculpture, literature, astronomy and navigation. In the glass, a symphony of tastes influenced by them, sour design: Rum Santa Teresa 1796, grapefruit and cinnamon cordial. Let’s describe much better: sitting at the counter of The Bar, housed in the Red Space of the Aman Venice – the high-end hotel inaugurated in 2013 inside Palazzo Papadopoli, among the 8 significant structures on the Grand Canal – we are tasting Armonia, among the 6 productions of the brand-new signature beverage list Reflections, influenced by as lots of spaces of this honorable home.
Head barman Antonio Ferrara– who boasts an extremely skilled group– was especially proficient at resounding the essence of the frescoes and other decors of the spaces through 6 dishes that eclecticly reinterpret traditional cocktails and exist in a stylish menu made from scraps of initial Rubelli materials, the very same ones on the walls. We likewise tasted Indomitable, a beverage in this case committed to the Yellow Space, the one that hosts the picture of among the family members, Maria Maddalena Aldobrandini Papadopoli, with clothing that remember the colors of the resistance versus the supremacy of Venice. The components? Gin, vodka, vermouth instilled for 24 hr with fennel seeds and mint and edible gold delegates garnish whatever. The mixed drink reinterprets among the hotel bar’s essential classics, the Count Martini, developed particularly for Count Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga, a descendant of the household who survives on the leading flooring of the Palazzo and who likes to regular the bar drinking this sartorial twist on the Martini.
Amongst the other propositions of Riflessioni there is Meditazione, a revisitation of a French 75 that integrates Champagne, Tanqueray gin, Venturo (an aperitif based upon chamomile and mint) and a verbena cordial in a mix that remembers the distinctly womanly sophistication of the Sala Blu, improved by the diamond-shaped ice. And likewise Anima, an unique mixed drink– prepared with bourbon instilled with Palo Santo incense wood, Pedro Ximénez Sherry and banana juice– that reveals the meditative aura of the library and all its convincing aroma of ancient wood and leather.
