Opening Cocktail: The Negroni

The Negroni

While the drink’s origins are unknown, the most widely reported account is that it was first mixed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, at Caffè Casoni (formerly Caffè Giacosa), on Via de’ Tornabuoni and now called Caffè Roberto Cavalli. Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni concocted it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water.

Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin • 1 ounce Campari • 1 ounce sweet vermouth • Garnish: orange peel

Method

• Add the gin, Campari and sweet vermouth to a mixing glass filled with ice, and stir. • Strain into a rocks glass filled with large ice cubes.