Negroni Bianco Bergamotto

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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz Italicus liqueur
1 oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered chilled Fragata Green Olive.
  3. POUR ingredients into ice-filled glass.
  4. STIR.
  5. Garnish with skewered olive.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 8/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 8/10
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Review:

Dry with wine like-minerality, zesty bergamot and piney gin notes.

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Variant:

Negroni Bianco

History:

Adapted from a drink promoted with the launch of Italicus Rosolio di Bergamotto in the summer of 2017. Our original recipe comprised four equal parts:
20 ml Dry gin
20 ml Luxardo Bitter Bianco
20 ml Italicus liqueur
20 Bianco vermouth

Nutrition:

One serving of Negroni Bianco Bergamotto contains 159 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 20.79% alc./vol. (20.79° proof)
  • 18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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James Dorman’s Avatar James Dorman
1st February at 01:55
I did it with a twist of lemon. Would not change a thing.
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Katie ALLEN’s Avatar Katie ALLEN
6th October 2024 at 20:44
No olives first time and was unimpressed, as others have said a bit on the sweet side. Then gave it a second chance with the olives which made such a difference for me by cutting the sweetness
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we st’s Avatar we st
16th July 2024 at 00:23
Reisetbauer Blue (juniper forward london dry), cinzano extra dry and italicus: italicus brings a lot of sugar, subdueing the more interestings flavours. Too sweet and lacks depth.
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
19th June 2024 at 14:13
With aberquina olives (from Aldi, no less) helps to cut the sugar of the vermouth and liqueur.
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
15th June 2024 at 14:23
Retried with the specified ingredients - yum!
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
15th June 2024 at 14:30
Fino in place of dry vermouth would also be a good option here.
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
15th June 2024 at 14:28
Subbing in elderflower liqueur for the bergamot also works well here!
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
7th June 2024 at 13:24
One of my first tastes of italicised. A nice introduction that really features it. The bergamot and other herbals really are very delicate and subtle. I only had Cocchi Americano to sub for the vermouth so took it back to 20ml. Noting others’ comments re sweetness, bumped the gin - Cotswolds - to 40ml. Seemed a reasonable balance and the gin herbals integrated very pleasingly with the liqueur’s.
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
7th June 2024 at 13:25
Italicus*. Curse autocorrect!
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David Hoyle’s Avatar David Hoyle
1st January 2024 at 19:47
Have tried this both as directed, and with Plymouth Gin. The former - with Rutte Celery Gin - seemed perfectly balanced. With the Plymouth, I would suggest try reducing the Dolin a little, otherwise this Vermouth shines through a tad strongly. Nevertheless, a great introduction (for yours truly) to this bergamot-flavoured apéritif. And it's not too sweet for this drinker's palate...
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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
19th June 2024 at 14:03
Perhaps a dash of celery bitters would suit?!
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Sally Glover’s Avatar Sally Glover
24th November 2023 at 20:32
Light, delicious and fairly sweet. I strain it and serve with a slice of lemon.
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James Casswell’s Avatar James Casswell
21st September 2023 at 20:02
As others have said this is more Martini than Negroni and relatively sweet but a thoroughly enjoyable introduction to Italicus.
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Jon Solberg’s Avatar Jon Solberg
23rd May 2023 at 13:25
I found the original version just a tad to sweet and upped the gin to 1 1/2 part. Mote closely resembles a wet martini, and more to my liking. Even so, a very nice combination, especially for those not into gin martinis.
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