Name: Sloegroni
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 20 ml Red bitter liqueur; 20 ml Sloe gin liqueur; 20 ml Rosé/rosato vermouth

Sloegroni
Jump to

Glass:

Photographed in a Libbey Old Fashioned 11oz

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Italian red bitter liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Rosé/rosato vermouth

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare orange slice for garnish.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish:

Garnish with orange slice.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosé/rosato vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile

Review:

Lighter in colour and more mellow in flavour than a classic Negroni, with sloe gin adding richness and subtle berry flavours.

View readers' comments

Variant:

Slow Negroni

History:

A riff on the classic Negroni which emerged circa 2018.

Nutrition:

One serving of Sloegroni contains 187 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
22.36% alc./vol. (44.72° proof)
20.1 grams of pure alcohol

More Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails
More Bittersweet (e.g. Negroni) cocktails
More Christmas & Thanksgiving cocktails

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 3 comments for Sloegroni.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

Chris Brislawn

30th December 2025 at 02:58

I've been looking for a good "holiday-time" candidate for this new bottle of Hayman's Sloe Gin and I think I found it. Adding sloe gin as a fourth ingredient in an equal-parts Negroni recipe would only make the Negroni sweeter and heavier, so emphasizing the London dry and lightening the vermouth like this is a smart approach to take. The Hayman's Sloe Gin is particularly nice, and I went with Martini & Rossi Riserva Speciale Bitter to avoid overpowering it with Campari. Lacking a true "rosato vermouth" (of which there don't seem to be very many), I used Ramazzotti Aperitivo Rosato which does a good job of lightening things up. A superior Negroni; 5 stars.

John CARR

20th February 2025 at 13:28

A New favourite negroni, and a new favourite full stop! Brilliant use for sloe gin. Significantly more laid back than the standard negroni. Used select as the red bitter to emphasise the berry characters, and Cocchi Americano rosa was the closest vermouth I had, which I felt worked well. And good old beefeater gin.