Friday, December 17, 2010

Negroni

via Dick Lonergan

makes 1 drink


1 ounce gin
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce sweet vermouth

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Serve with an orange slice.

The drink of choice after a long hike in Italy. It was sometime prior to 1920 that the Negroni appears to have had its birth at the Cafe Casoni in Florence. The Americano was already a popular drink, but Count Camillo Negroni liked his afternoon Americano with a splash of gin instead of soda, and so that is how the bartender would make it for him. Soon patrons began asking for Americanos "the Negroni way".

No comments:

Post a Comment