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Cocktail recipes: how to make a perfect negroni
Top hotel bartenders share their recipes for the classic cocktail
Making a classic negroni cocktail may sound simple, but there’s many tips and tricks on how to perfect the tasty recipe.
Award-winning Italian bartenders from three of the Dorchester Collection’s top hotels and Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin have shared their secret recipes on how to make the perfect negroni. Saluti!
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For negroni lovers, you can’t get much better than ordering the classic cocktail at aperitivo hour from Hotel Eden’s Il Giardino bar in the heart of Rome. While we can’t give you a recipe for the panoramic views of the Eternal City from Il Giardino’s roof terrace, we can share the recipe for this classic cocktail courtesy of head barman Mirko Simonazzi.
Ingredients
30ml Campari bitter
30ml Antica Formula Carpano Vermouth
30ml Tanqueray Gin
Orange zest to garnish
Glass
Old Fashioned glass
Method
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Stir in a mixing glass over ice and double strain over fresh ice.
Golden Negroni: 45 Park Lane, London
Known in London for its negroni, the 45 Park Lane’s BAR 45 has its own Negroni Trolley – featuring the hotel’s barrel-aged negroni which also awaits hotel guests in their room upon arrival. Head bartender Francesco Orefici has added a number of twists on the classic recipe, including his Golden Negroni.
Ingredients
30ml of Botanist Gin
15ml of Italicus
15ml of Suze Liqueur
30ml of Martini Ambrato
One lemon peel to garnish
Glass
Stemless Burgundy glass
Method
Pour the Botanist Gin, Italicus, Suze Liqueur and Martini Ambrato into the mixing glass filled up with ice cubes, and stir for eight to ten seconds with a long bar spoon (mixing spoon). Using a cocktail strainer, pour the chilled liquid into a stemless Burgundy glass over a large ice chunk, or a few cubes of ice depending on what you have. Squeeze the lemon peel over the cocktail, twist and let it drop into the glass.
Cent’anni Negroni: Hotel Principe di Savoia, Milan
In celebration of the classic Italian cocktail’s 100th anniversary last year, Milan’s Hotel Principe di Savoia created its own unique twist on the recipe, the Cent’anni Negroni. Bar manager Daniele Confalonieri takes us through the steps...
Ingredients
20ml Del Professore Red Vermouth
20ml Campari
10ml Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur
20ml Fever Tree Ginger beer
1 teaspoon of Amaro Ramazzotti Il Premio
Slice of dried orange to garnish
Glass
Old Fashioned glass
Method
Stir in a mixing glass filled with ice, and strain into glass over fresh ice.
Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin Negroni
Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin is triple distilled in traditional copper pot stills and handcrafted in the foothills of the Himalayas at one of India’s oldest distilleries. Jaisalmer has 11 botanicals, seven of which are sourced from the four corners of India.
Ingredients
25ml Jaisalmer Indian Craft Gin
25ml sweet Vermouth
25ml Campari
Method
Stir all the ingredients over ice in a rocks glass for around 20 seconds, until chilled. Top with ice and garnish with an orange peel twist.
