Name: Chef’s Negroni
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 1/8 ounce Mezcal; 1 ounce Lo-Fi Gentian Amaro; 1 ounce Cappelletti Aperitivo; 1/4 ounce Lime

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