Name: Negrino
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 30 ml Fino sherry; 20 ml Gentian liqueur

Negrino
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
1 oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
²⁄₃ oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of pink grapefruit wedge/zest twist & scorched rosemary sprig.
POUR all ingredients into ice-filled glass.
STIR.
Garnish with pink grapefruit wedge/zest twist & scorched rosemary sprig.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

A riff on the classic Negroni from Vietnam, which brilliantly set the richness of sloe gin against bone dry fino sherry while harnessing the herbal bitterness of gentian. Hit the right dilution, and by the third sip, when your palate has adjusted, you'll not be able to stop sipping this bitter aperitif cocktail.

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History:

Created in 2017 by Trinh Quan Huy-Philip, a "Travelling Mixologist in Vietnam.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Negrino contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
16.53% alc./vol. (16.53° proof)
14.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Marcus Burckhardt

13th December 2024 at 19:00

This was a great aperitivo cocktail, we absolutely loved it. Just that the Italian guest of my party was quite startled with the name since apparently "ino" is a suffix in Italian to express something is small or cute and the previous part of the name equating the N-word in Italian. So yea an unfortunate wording for native Italian speakers apparently.

Simon Sedgley

26th February at 11:26

Wethinks you and your Italian guest were being a wee bit overly sensitive about the root negr-...but we hesitate to use the W-word. Should we be politely asking the good folk of Montenegro to consider a name change for their country? The root negr- simply means black. But we agree with you that it's a lovely aperitivo. Cheers.

John CARR

25th September 2023 at 11:22

In the absence of Suze threw in some Averna, which no doubt changed the flavour profile but which we certainly enjoyed!

Paul Holdsworth

20th March 2022 at 18:22

I'm loving fino as a cocktail ingredient at the moment - and this is is a peach, really delicious!

Calvin Grant

7th December 2021 at 05:15

I love Suze and I love good Sloe Gin. This is a marriage made in Fino Heaven. Next time I'll give this a brief stir on ice and strain into a chilled coupe.

Calvin Grant

7th December 2021 at 04:49

Awesome!

Jordan Field

24th July 2020 at 21:34

Is the garnish supposed to be a grapefruit wedge or a grapefruit twist? The photo has a twist, but the text says wedge.

Simon Difford

25th July 2020 at 07:49

The original recipe specifies wedge but we preferred with a twist. I have amended the garnish specified above accordingly. Thanks for bringing to my attention.

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