While the drink’s origins are unknown, the most widely reported account is that it was firstly mixed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, at Caffè Casoni, ex Caffè Giacosa located in via Tornabuoni and now called Caffè Roberto Cavalli.
Count Camillo Negroni concocted it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water. The bartender also added an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon garnish of the Americano to signify that it was a different drink. Since the drink was conceived before the invention of dry gin, the kind of gin used would have likely been barrel aged or Old Tom style
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Ingredients
- 30 ml Bitter Campari
- 30 ml Cinzano 1757
- 20 ml Diesus Amaro
- 10 ml simple syrup
- 8 ml of espresso
Method
- Add ingredients to a working glass
- Stir
- Strain into a rocks Glass
Glassware
Rocks or old fashion
Garnish
Dried blood orange and a couple of coffee beans
