Negroni (cocktail) : The Negroni is a cocktail à basis de gin, vermouth Red and Campari. He was invented à Florence (Italy) In 1919.
History: At this time, the “Casoni” café was the place where the nobility Florentine were going to meet on soir, before dinner.
In 1919, Count Camillo Negroni had custom to get there and use are Americano.
However, Count Negroni, who liked to taste the cocktails, was bored of always drinking the same and decided to change. He proposes so at barman, Fosco Scarelli, of reinforce theaperitif using the same ingredients, but withoutsparkling water and adding du gin, which the count had discovered during his travels to London.
Le succes won by this cocktail was immediate. All the customers from Café Casoni wanted to taste this " Americano with some gin ". THE barman Fosco Scarelli had the idea of giving it the name of his inventor, “Negroni”, to honor the count and to shorten thedesignation trop a of " Americano with some gin».
Ce cocktail has since gone around the world world and established itself among the great cocktails International.
Ingredients et recipe :
3 cl of gin
3 cl of Campari
3 cl of vermouth Red
On fresh directly the ingredients in a old fashioned glass filled de ice. On shakes slowly with a cocktail spoon and we garnishes by washer byorange.
However, there are variants of the recipe original, one version à basis byitalicus (a White of whites Italian), from gin and vermouth dry, following the proportions of the recipe original.
Le cocktail Negroni Sbagliato: Unlike Negroni loan, On replaces le gin by prosecco, which him brought another looking touch festive.
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