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Baltasar & Blimunda
A Negroni variation with vermouth amaro and tawny port, producing a dry, lightly bitter digestivo. (When made with richer ruby port, this cocktail loses...
Matt
10th April at 12:41
IMO this is only distantly related to a Negroni (proportions are far different). Despite higher gin weighting this doesn't present as boozy, or even gin-heavy. There is significant port flavor prominence - a very nice cocktail.
3rd April at 14:28
A new favourite negroni! This really made my cocktail evening. Created a couple of years after the Cornwall negroni and a definite improvement by evolution of it, in my opinion. Better balanced and integrated. Will definitely be having again.
Garnish instructions seem contradictory lemon vs orange flamed twist? I was half way through doing lemon when noticed the orange. Lemon non-flamed actually worked better with the Tanq 10 that I was using.
Garnish instructions seem contradictory lemon vs orange flamed twist? I was half way through doing lemon when noticed the orange. Lemon non-flamed actually worked better with the Tanq 10 that I was using.
12th April at 02:45
I, too, was confused by the specification of both lemon and orange flamed zest twists, so I used one of each. According to Death & Co.'s "Modern Classic Cocktails," which is probably as close to Phil Ward's original recipe as we're gonna get, the official garnish is a flamed orange "coin," as shown in Difford's photos. I've watched video of Dale DeGroff igniting flaming orange coins and it looks like you get just one good flaming squeeze per coin (don't burn your fingers). I don't do coins and can attempt several pyrotechnic squeezes out of a good-size zest strip. A great Negroni variation with more body than the standard recipe. And no, I haven't read the book.
8th April at 14:51
Also good was a mash up version with 15 Each Rosso Antico vermouth, 10yo tawny port, Campari, dash orange bitters. The port’s body helped the fine aromatics and almost smokey tobacco notes of the vermouth to come out and play.