How to Make a Perfect Negroni - The Essential Tools

Making a great Negroni is easy. Just need the right ingredients and the right tools. Here are our recomendations.

The Ice

This you need to make in advance so it comes first, you want to use great spring or well filtered water.  Ideally you will need two types of ice, balls for stirring and large squares for serving.

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A Cocktail Shaker

You will never shake a Negroni, but will need a vessel for mixing. We prefer a glass shaker, what's called a Boston Cocktail Shaker.   Schott Zwiesel

makes a nice one. We also sometimes use a tall water glass.

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 A Spoon

A long cocktail spoon for stiring, which you will using a lot, 45-60 stirs per mix, should be solid and well balanced. We like something with a classy style.

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A Strainer

Since the ice in your shaker will be staying there you'll want a good strainer.  We like this one by OXO for its ease of use and clean design.

Oxo strainer

 

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A Fascinating Story

  • The history of the Negroni is uncertain, but we have researched it well. Not just where it began, but how this exemplary cocktai has emerged over almost 100 years to become the wildly popular drink that is today...

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Count Camillo Negroni

  • As to its origin, the most prevalent story is that it was first created in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffè Casoni, an antique shop/bar, (think Il Buco) where now Caffè Giacosa is found. As the story goes Count Camillo Negroni asked bartender Fosco Scarselli to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin instead of the typical soda water. Fosco distinguished the drink with an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon. A Brief History of the Negroni
General Pascal Olivier de Negroni de Cardi

Count Pascal Olivier Negroni

  • Of course like most tales in Italy there is another version of the story. In his one it is told that the drink was invented in 1857 in the West African country of Senegal by Corsican General Pascal Olivier de Negroni. They say he created a drink to aide his new wife’s digestion lifting the drink to toast to her health on their wedding day. Negroni family lays claim to namesake cocktail

    Sorry Pascal, with no disrespect, we are going with the Italian Count Camillo version.

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