With just three ingredients you better make sure they are all good. So can a relatively inexpensive vermouth fill the bill? We consider Noilly Prat.
The Gin: Plymouth Gin
The Vermouth: Noilly Prat Rouge
The Amaro: Camapari
More: Just an Orange Slice
A Negroni, Gin, Vermouth, and an Amaro, three basic ingredients, add an orange slice and your done. Maybe.
Purist assert that the one constant to a true Negroni is the amaro Campari, it is part of the Count's original recipe. We like to experiment with other amari, so many flavors to explore.
What about the vermouth, our most joyous Negronis are made with higher end vermouth, expensive stuff, but what about the popular more economical Noilly Prat? The answer is, it aint bad.
Our purist side takes issue with its French origin, doesn't a Negroni have to be all Italian? Well, we break that rule with Dolin Vermouth too.
We recently did a vermouth tasting and will share the results soon. In the end, Noilly has a place in the Negroni universe, and it plays that role well.