When Did Amaro Become Seattle’s Signature Drink?

Highside created its Sunset Hill amaro in collaboration with the cocktail bar Baker’s to reflect the region’s terroir and climate using only local ingredients.

Enter Skip Tognetti’s Letterpress Distilling and you may believe, at least for a moment, that you’re not in SoDo anymore. The hum of machinery and the siren-like invitation of boozy beverages quickly replace the din of Route 99 or the audible cheers emanating—on good days—from T-Mobile Park. An Italianate portal into Tognetti’s heritage and summers spent with grandparents in Rome, Letterpress, founded in 2012, offers a splendid, award-winning bouquet of liqueurs: amaro, limoncello, and the like.

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