Don Ciccio & Figli is better positioned than most small American spirits brands to take advantage of the current infatuation with amaro. Francesco Amodeo started the company in 2012 in Washington, DC, drawing on a family lineage of Italian spirits makers from the Amalfi Coast that dates back to 1883. 

When Amodeo launched, he focused on something Americans already loved—sweet cordials such as limoncello. Soon, Don Ciccio & Figli branched out into amari and aperitivi, targeting the craft cocktail market. Amodeo and his team developed such a variety of bitter, bold and sweet offerings that in 2020, they began to offer a “discovery kit,” with 15 50-milliliter sample bottles packaged in a box.