Mellow ’Cellos

For Skip Tognetti, owner and founder of Seattle-based Letterpress Distilling, making arancello (an orange version of the liqueur) was a way to express his Italian heritage while pushing beyond limoncello. “Blood orange is almost ubiquitous in Sicily and part of Calabria,” he explains. “I thought it would be fun as a seasonal thing”—the fruit typically peaks from December through February. The spiced orange liqueur found fans, so he’s ramped up production. It’s now available year-round. Next on his alterna-cello wish list: a grapefruit-cello. While a limited-edition “pompelmocello” (pompelmo is Italian for “grapefruit”) captured the floral qualities of ruby red and golden grapefruits, Tognetti admits his holy grail will incorporate the grapefruit-like pomelo, “just because I thought it would be fun to have a product called pomelocello.” Tognetti’s not alone. Producers and bartenders are…