Winestillery Negroni Set 30cl

Negroni: the most international of Italian cocktails

Italian creativity and international success: this is the winning formula of Negroni, one of the world's most popular cocktails.

Its birth dates back to 1919, in Florence, thanks to Count Camillo Negroni, an iconic character of the time. An elegant polyglot, fencing master, gambler and lover of mixed drinks, the gentleman was a regular at Caffè Casoni, in the central Via de' Tornabuoni. Here, the barman Fosco Scarselli had as his speciality the Milano-Torino, a cocktail very much in vogue at the time, but it often happened that the histrionic Count Camillo would step up to the bar. So it was that, one day in May, the count decided to modify that classic cocktail, based on red Vermouth, Bitter and soda. During his long and frequent trips to London and New York, he had fallen in love with gin, and so he had the happy intuition to replace the soda precisely with gin, thus creating a sort of strengthened version of the Americano. As a distinctive finishing touch, a half slice of orange. The Negroni Cocktail was born.

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