A’peel Negroni

Equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, stirred over ice. With a citrus-led gin the orange in the Campari comes forward and the drink is a touch less bitter than it is with a juniper-heavy London dry.

Ingredients

• 30 mL A’peel Gin
• 30 mL Campari or another red bitter
• 30 mL sweet vermouth
• A strip of orange peel

Method

1. Stir everything with ice until cold.
2. Strain over a large block of ice in a rocks glass.
3. Express the orange peel over the top and drop it in.

Where it comes from

The usual story has Count Camillo Negroni asking the bartender at Caffe Casoni in Florence, in 1919, to stiffen his Americano with gin in place of the soda. The family still argues about it, but the drink is a hundred years old either way and has barely changed: three equal parts, stirred, orange peel.

Because the gin is a third of the drink, it changes the result more than people expect. A’peel Gin pushes the drink towards orange and makes the Campari read as bitter orange rather than bitter root. For the coffee version, swap the gin for Rising Sun: the Rising Sun Negroni is on this site too.