Few cocktails are as effortlessly elegant as the iconic negroni, a bitter, refreshing mix built on a simple 1:1:1 ratio of gin, Campari and sweet red vermouth.
The drink is said to have originated in early 20th-century Florence, where Count Camillo Negroni famously asked a bartender at Bar Casoni to bolster his usual Americano by replacing the soda water with gin. The bartender went one step further, adding a twist of orange peel, rather than the typical lemon, sealing the drink’s signature character. Part of what has made the negroni so enduring — and so endlessly reimagined — lies in those very origins.
Swap the sweet vermouth for white vermouth or Lillet Blanc and you’ve got a white negroni. Replace the gin with prosecco and you’ve created the effervescent negroni sbagliato: the "mistaken negroni" that’s taken on a life of its own.
