NEGRONI

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Ingredients

How to make a Negroni:

  1. Fill your glass with cubed ice or if you’re fancy dump a big lump of beautiful clear ice into it.
  2. Add equal measures of all spirits
    •Give it a quick stir

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Absolut the Negroni

BY: MICAHEL BERGSTRÖM

Maybe it’s the deep, enchanting ruby color of the drink or the uncanny power of anything red. It’s energetic and warm, but it can also signify danger, being alarmingly daring and alluringly risky.

Either way, sipping a Negroni can make you feel a certain continental sophistication, and perhaps that’s one of the reasons why it has experienced a massive revival in recent years and gained worldwide recognition.

Legend has it that the Negroni was first conceived when a Florentine Count sat down at his favorite café not far from the ancient Piazza della Repubblica. The noble Florentine held court as he usually did during aperitivo hour among his aristocratic acquaintances. On this particular day, he leaned over the bar top and asked his bartender friend to “strengthen” his Americano, a lush Spritz-style drink with vermouth and Campari topped with soda water. The bartender reached for the gin instead of the soda water, and the star we know as Negroni was born. A seemingly small modification, but one that would influence a whole world of modern-day drinkers over a century later.

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