Blood Orange Agricole Rhum Negroni
Blood Orange Agricole Rhum Negroni - I have taken some liberties with the traditional Gin, Sweet vermouth, Campari version for something that truly reflects my tastes. The most widely reported version of this drink’s origin is that it was invented at Caffe Casoni in Florence, Italy in 1919. Legend tells that Count Camillo Negroni asked his friend, bartender Forsco Scarselli, to strengthen his favourite cocktail – the Americano – by replacing the soda water with gin. Scarselli added an orange garnish, rather than the lemon you’d usually get with an Americano, and the drink took off. Before long, everyone was coming into the bar for a ‘Negroni.’ Camillo Negroni himself was an interesting figure. He travelled around America while in his twenties and lived the life of a cowboy for a period. He also lived in London, which, we like to think with its prevalent gin scene, led to him (perhaps inadvertently) creating one of the most iconic cocktails of all time. The Negroni family was quick to take advantage of the cocktail’s success too, founding the Negroni Distillery in 1919, in Treviso, Italy, where they produced a ready-made version of the drink, sold as Antico Negroni. The distillery is still open today, the under the ownership of a new family.
Punt e Mes is a unique Sweet Vermouth. It has a golden orange color with topaz tones, herby aromas and dark red, black dahlia with vermilion shades. The initial taste is one of sweetness, characterised by an intriguing accent of orange. This is followed by the characteristically bitter taste of the quina and ends on a sweet note. The bizarre origin of this new name of a Vermouth came into common usage not long after, with “regulars” of the wine shop ordering Punt e Mes with a gesture. Whereby they would only need to raise their thumb to mean one Point and trace a straight line upwards in mid-air to mean a Half point for the barman to understand straight away that they wanted a Punt e Mes. It was a favorite drink of the founder of FIAT, Giovanni Agnelli, as he recalled in his memoirs of 1916.
What makes a Negroni a Negroni is Campari. The creation of Campari was the result of the talent of Gaspare Campari, master drink maker and founder of the company. His experiments in concocting new beverages in Novara, in 1860, resulted in a recipe that still today remains a secret known only to very few people. I love Campari.! This drink needs a tad less bitterness because of the edge that the Punt e Mes brings that a more traditional Sweet Vermouth doesn’t. I split the difference with Campari and Cappelletti. Cappelletti is a less edgy cousin of Campari. I think the resulting balance of this cocktails says it all!
Replacing the Gin in this sublime cocktail, is the unique and distinctive Clément 10 year old Rhum Agricole from Martinique. It has been distilled from fresh pressed sugarcane juice and aged a minimum of 10 years in a combination of virgin and re-charred oak barrels, yielding an exceptional aged Agricole Rhum with unique characteristics of cinnamon and vanilla. The taste of the raw, new French Oak casks it was aged in is apparent on the nose. This is one of the most well crafted Rhums in the world.
In a crystal mixing glass of ice add:
1.5 oz Clément 10 year old Rhum Agricole
1.5 oz Punt e Mes Sweet Vermouth
.75 oz Cappelletti
.75 oz Campari
Stir for 1 minute and strain into your favorite fancy Rocks glass with a big clear ice cube! garnish with an “Expressed” Blood Orange Rind. Enjoy!
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