Other spirit-based Negroni recipes

Amber Negroni

This very serious Negroni has great depth of flavour with mocha coffee and bitter gentian.

Banana Boulevardier

Some things are just so wrong that they're not only right, but deliciously so. This riff on a classic Boulevardier is such a cocktail.

Benny Blanco

A bittersweet and lightly chili spicy aperitivo to awaken your taste buds.

Boulevardier

Basically, a Negroni with bourbon replacing gin. The original 1927 recipe calls for equal parts, but I've previously favoured a 3:2:2 (45ml bourbon, 30ml

Caffè Negroni

Coffee-infused vermouth replaces your standard rosso vermouth in this aptly named Negroni variation.

Casa Savoia Boulevardier

A delicious riff on a classic Boulevardier with just two ingredients.

Celebration

One of our most popular cocktails from Thanksgiving through to the end of the December holiday period. Reminiscent of a brandy-based Negroni served straight-up,

Cocogroni

Your choice of coconut rum will significantly impact this riff on a classic Negroni; many so-called coconut rums are liqueurs or verging on being liqueurs,

Dolce-Amaro

The apt name translates from Italian as sweet-bitter.

Dutch Count Negroni / Red Light Negron

Genever's flavoursome character adds malty notes to an otherwise traditional Negroni.

Edsel

A dry and mildly spicy Negroni Sbagliato variation.

El Pedroni

Tequila replaces gin in this Negroni variation. Not an easy option.

Golden Hour

This cocktail's hue befits its name and character, as its best enjoyed as an aperitivo during the golden hour.

Irish Boulevardier

Blended Irish whiskey replaces richer bourbon in this mellow yet dry riff on the classic Boulevardier.

Jabroni

Overripe banana delicately influences this tequila-based Negroni.

Kingston Negroni

The huge character of pungent rum is matched with a bittersweet liqueur and sweet vermouth combo. Not for everyone but a Negroni riff worth trying.

Left Hand

The Negroni meets a Manhattan in this straight-up riff on a Boulevardier.

Maximiliano

The subtly smoky notes of mezcal combine brilliantly with the aromatic bittersweetness of gentian liqueur in this fabulously complex White Negroni-like

Mezcal Negroni

This mezcal-influenced Negroni is an interesting take on the classic, which will be appreciated by mezcal aficionados.

Munich Negroni Western Style

A nutty riff on a Negroni with a lingering bittersweet hazelnut finish. The dark (high cocoa content) chocolate and orange slice garnish brilliantly befits

Negroni Sbagliato

This lighter-styled Negroni has some bitterness but lacks the gin punch and character of the original Negroni.

Negroni Tredici

A amaro riff on the Negroni.

Oaxacan Negroni

Mezcal lends a characterful smoky note to this complex riff on a classic Negroni.

Old Pal

Classically, an equal parts three-ingredient cocktail comprising: 30ml rye, 30ml bitter liqueur and 30ml dry vermouth. This produces an overly dry, bittersweet

Old Pal No. 2

On the dry bitter side of bittersweet, it may take three sips before your palette appreciates this Negroni-style aperitivo.

Orange Negroni

Orange and bitter liqueur combine well, especially when supported by sweet vermouth.

Right Hand

This rum-based Negroni may make you wonder why you've been drinking gin Negronis all these years. The Right Hand is usually served straight-up in a coupe

Rum Negroni No. 2

I started with a classic three equal parts Negroni, simply subbing rum for gin, but the rum was masked by the bitter liqueur so I boosted rum notes with

Rye Boulevardier

A rye whiskey-based Boulevardier with both the generous measure of rye and its high alc./vol. making this a boozy but tasty aperitivo or digestivo.

Sake Negroni

A bittersweet aperitivo with sake and vermouth.

Scotch Negroni

On the bitter side of bittersweet and, depending on your Scotch, faintly smoky.

Sin Cyn

A single malt whisky laced twist on a Boulevardier with Cynar replacing the familiar Italian red bitter liqueur.

Sophisticated Dane

Caraway, spice, spirituous and on the bitter side of bittersweet. If you like Negronis and aquavit then this is for you.

Soufriere Negroni

Bittersweet and delicately spiced.

Spiced Plantain Negroni

A lightly spiced, banana-influenced Negroni that's edging to the sweet side of bittersweet.

Spiced Rum Negroni

Mellow and slightly sweet with flavours of caramel, chocolate and rich orange.

Toffee Negroni

There's no toffee in this Toffee Negroni in the same way there's no coffee in the Coffee Cocktail yet both drinks are aptly named and delicious.

Trade Winds

Coconut water adds dilution and subtly flavours this brandy-based cocktail with sweet vermouth and subtle notes of chocolate and aromatic bitters.

Tsipouro Negroni

Just as it says on the tin, it's a Negroni but based on Greek grape-based Tsipouro.

White Mezcal Negroni

Muscular notes of mezcal and gentian square up to each other but are softened and made to play nicely by bianco vermouth.

White Negroni Piña Colada

Just as it says on the tin – a White Negroni crossed with a Piña Colada, but the delight of crossbreeding is a tasty mezcal-based mongrel of a cocktail.

White Negroni Sbagliato

The lovechild of the White Negroni and Negroni Sbagliato, this bittersweet aperitivo dominated by gentian liqueur so the first couple of sips may be challenging

Mane of Needles

For Negroni-lovers seeking depth of flavour, complexity and refinement.

Yellow Negroni

As the name suggests, this pisco-based, five equal parts, vivid yellow, bittersweet aperitif was inspired by the classic Negroni, along with three of the

Flying Negroni

Perhaps better named Flying Americano as this is an Americano fortified with brandy.

Tequila Negroni

Reposado rather than banco tequila, and a rosso alla vaniglia vermouth rather than a rosso vermouth, help round this tasty riff on a classic gin-based

Odessa

Spirit-forward and bittersweet with the tang of arrack, laced with gin. Perhaps best served on-the-rocks as an arrack-influenced riff on a Negroni.

Panamericano

A pisco-based riff on a White Negroni.

Rum Negroni

A simple yet delicious rum-based Negroni.

Bouchot

A calvados-based White Negroni. (If you measure in ml rather than ounces, perhaps use a 50ml, 25ml, 25ml recipe.)

Almond Negroni

Bittersweet, as you expect from a White Negroni with pleasing dry almond, as the name suggests.

Amer Negroni

Bittersweet zesty grapefruit with delicate apple brandy notes.

Boulevardier No. 2

Delicately bittersweet, with red-wine notes and herbal complexity. (For the rouge quinquina, I used Raphaël, as per the original recipe.)

Brandy Boulevardier

Choose your brandy well (perhaps reach for your finest cognac) and you'll experience a refined Boulevardier/Negroni.

Brazilian Contessa

The Contessa is subtly sweet 'n' sour with delicate bitterness with a bold orange hue. A delicious alternative to an Aperitivo Spritz.

Caribbean Boulevardier

A rum and coconut riff on a classic Boulevardier.

Cariño Negroni

A riff on the classic Negroni that turns the aperitivo into a digestivo or late-night sipper.

Harvest Negroni

Apple brandy leads this bittersweet and herbal aperitivo, which is also great as a digestive or late-night tipple.

Lodge Boulevardier

Coffee vermouth combines brilliantly with the bittersweet Scotch whisky in this Negroni-style cocktail.

Mexican Contessa

A mezcal and tequila-laced bittersweet aperitivo.

Negroski

A Negroni where vodka is substituted for gin.

Perfect Pal

A riff on the classic Old Pal, made lighter and more approachable by red aperitivo liqueur replacing red bitter liqueur. Don't skip the spray of orange

Pineapple Kingston Negroni

A pineapple rum-influenced riff on Joaquín Simó's Kingston Negroni.

Right-hand Twist

This spiced rum and PX sherry riff on the classic Negroni is firmly on the bitter side of bittersweet.

Roasted Duck Boulevardier

Exactly as headlined, a bourbon and rye whiskey-laced Boulevardier with Roasted Duck Fat Wash.

South Pacific Contessa

A pisco-laced, bittersweet aperitivo with a bold orange hue.

Teqroni

Lighter and slightly sweeter than a classic gin-based Negroni with Italian bitter liqueur. However, this Italian and Mexican trio make for pleasing cross-continental

Winterised Negroni

A classic Negroni winterised (or winterized) with a splash of peated whisky. Originally served straight-up as a bittersweet winter sharpener, it is also

1794

Dry, bittersweet, spirit-forward and slightly chocolaty.

All In

Spirituous and bittersweet with a underlying chocolaty treat.

Blandings

Apple brandy shines in this pleasing bittersweet aperitivo/digestivo that has a delicate liquorice note from the amaro.

Cantilever

Rye whiskey underwrites this delicious digestivo/late-night sipper with waves of delicately bittersweet herbal flavours.

Cantinflas Mustache

Reminiscent of an M and M, this is a delicious and perfectly balanced bittersweet, spirit-forward, digestivo or late-night sipper with great depth of flavour.

Champino

A fizz option for Negroni lovers.

Circus Circus

A cleansing, delicately minty, bittersweet and very complex after-dinner digestivo.

Commedia All'italiana

Full-flavoured and bittersweet. Some will prefer this aperitivo with the dilution that comes with serving over ice in an old-fashioned glass.

Dan's Pier

Spirit-forward and bittersweet, this is a very tasty digestivo or late-night tipple.

Disco Mi-To

A wonderfully complex, vodka-based, Negroni riff.

Drifter

Whisky-forward with supporting herbal richness.

El Resentin

This grappa-laced cocktail has layers of coffee-led herbal complexity.

Enrico Pallazzo

A bittersweet Manhattan-style lightly sparkling cocktail.

Fall Back

A suitably autumnal apple brandy-influenced riff on the Sweet Manhattan with rye spice and herbal bitterness.

Guillotine No. 2

The cherry garnish is a sweet interlude between sips of this deliciously bittersweet aperitivo, or late-night digestivo that cuts through any lingering

Hell's Kitchen

A smoked Little Italy and Paper Plane mashup.

Highland Blossom

Adapted from a 2018 recipe created for (and originally using) Caorunn Gin Sean-Michael McCaffrey at Pub Bishagg in Montreal, Canada.

Iron Horse

A delicious riff on a Manhattan made special by the distinctive notes of ferro china.

Jersey's Best Dancers

Three equal-part ingredients, the holy grail of cocktail recipes, makes for a dry spirituous apéritif cocktail. This cocktail is very similar to a Maximiliano.

La Alianza

Mezcal sings in this dry aperitif-style cocktail with delicate vinous notes and light gentian bitterness.

Little Cuba

Chocolate and raisin flavours with delicate herbal spice add complexity to this Rum Negroni.

Maloney No. 2

A riff on a Sweet Manhattan with high-strength bourbon conscripted to resist domination by an alliance of carciofo amaro and rosso vermouth. The bourbon

Manhattan Transfer

Amaro takes the place of aromatic bitters and adds bitter-sweetness in this riff on a Dry Manhattan.

Midnight Marauder

A bittersweet after-dinner digestif with lightly a smoky hint of mezcal.

Milano

A vodka-based Negroni.

Mr President

A combination of the El-Presidente and Negroni. A cocktail on the bitter side of bittersweet which is perhaps best served on-the-rocks.

My Favorite Things

It might not taste of Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens but after this cocktail you won't feel so bad. It is a delicious aperitivo or digestivo.

Old Gal

This Negroni-style cocktail is a riff on the Old Pal with bianco vermouth, which has a more mellowing effect on the whiskey than the dry vermouth traditionally

Once Upon A Time

A short and lightly bitter aperitif-style cocktail with an attractive golden, almost sunny appearance.

Pablo à Paris

A dry and angular aperitif with robust flavours of aged rhum agricole and gentian liqueur, lengthened and tamed by dry vermouth with dashes of absinthe.

Patchanka

Lightly bitter, chocolate and coffee with zesty orange. Perfect as an aperitivo.

Perennial

Gently bitter rhubarb - a very tasty aperitivo.

Pied-à-terre

Cognac-laced and herbal with hints of liquorice, Pied-à-terre (which translates from French to mean 'foot on the ground') makes for a great after-dinner

Prophet in Plain Clothes

The Rob Roy meets the Hanky Panky in this smoky bittersweet digestivo.

Quadrant

Bittersweet vibrant pear with delicate bittersweetness.

Queen Mother

Pot still Jamaican rum adds delicate but distinctive funky notes to this lightly sweet fruity gin-laced cocktail.

Rosita

Bittersweet, tequila-based, and Negroni-like. Classically garnished with a lemon zest twist but better with grapefruit.

S 'n' Emm

So named due to originally being made with Savoia, Mezcal and Montenegro. On the bitter side of bittersweet but eases with the dilution that comes with

Santana

Bittersweet, faintly floral flavours with characterful tequila.

Scorched Earth

Dry, very aromatic and bordering on bitter. Interesting but not to everybody's taste. The lemon zest twist makes this cocktail.

Shadow Boxer

As the name suggests this is a punchy cocktail – spirituous and bittersweet with a long bitter finish. Far from being a crowd-pleaser.

Sharpie Mustache

As dilution opens this cocktail, gingerbread flavours emerge.

Six Cylinder

A bittersweet Negroni-like aperitivo or digestivo with pleasing, subtle, rich cherry notes. This cocktail runs so much better on high-octane Navy-strength

Smoking Hand

A peated whisky-forward Boulevardier served straight-up with mole bitters adding delicately spiced cacao notes. A deliciously bittersweet aperitivo or

Smoky Mizu

Dry, lightly bitter and delicately spirituous. An aperitif-style sipper.

South by Southwest

A riff on the classic Negroni created by Benny McKew. The popularity of this cocktail was much helped by its being written about by Gary gaz Regan. The

Stephen Marshall

A Negroni with hazelnut liqueur. Some will ask: why? Negroni-loving drinkers of hazelnut liqueur might ask: why not?

Strange Stirrings

Spirituous spiced pear with bittersweet herbal notes.

Sunstone

Bittersweet and herbal. Enjoy as an aperitivo or digestivo.

Susto

Bittersweet with mezcal and amaro combining harmoniously along with aromatic wine and celery bitters.

Tezonita

A dry and fairly bitter aperitif-style cocktail combining tequila's herbaceous notes and the herbal flavours of gentian.

The Blind Side

Fresh and refreshing – a minty gentian apéritif.

The Dandy (by Iain Meldrum)

Dry and slightly on the bitter side of bittersweet, single malt scotch, gentian liqueur and dry vermouth sit well together in this appealing aperitif-style

The Frank

My equal parts riff on one of Sydney's Maybe Sammy's best-known house cocktails. It is a tad mellower yet retains the drink's bittersweet agave laced aperitivo

The Italian Job

Bittersweet and boozy with a dry finish. Striking the right degree of dilution is key to the success of this cocktail – stir a little longer than usual

Three Blind Mice

Stirred down and boozy, the whiskey's corn notes are amplified by the bittersweet aperitif liqueur and aromatised wine.

Whiskey Six

A riff on the gin-based Six Cylinder by yours truly in April 2026. This equal-parts, straight six, combustion engine-inspired cocktail runs better on high-octane

White Grape

A bittersweet aperitivo which harnesses tsipouro's and Americano's vinious notes with gentian's bitter herbal flavours.

Yamabuki

Whisky-laced and delicately bittersweet with complex herbal notes. A delicious aperitivo.

Youth & Treachery

This spirituous bittersweet aperitif is reminiscent of a White Negroni, but based on tequila rather than gin.

Beatnik

This whiskey-laced, bittersweet red wine-like, three-ingredient cocktail is best appreciated as an after-dinner digestive or late-night refresher.

Latin Trifecta

A tequila-laced, herbal, after-dinner/late-night sipper. I've tried this cocktail with blanco, reposado and añejo tequilas, and while I like the freshness

Madame Mayahuel

Whether you love or hate this spirit-forward cocktail will firstly be driven by your preference for mezcal and secondly by whether you appreciate this

Red Haven

Ruby port contributes rich wine notes to this Scotch whisky-based cocktail, with rhubarb amaro contributing complex bittersweet flavours. The Sun Tavern's

Señor Santoni

This combination of bittersweet liqueur, cachaça and sherry is polarising. I like it! I created it; but I can see that many, perhaps the majority, will

Trident

Bone dry and boozy, this cocktail is aimed at those who have a penchant for both sherry and aquavit, not to mention bittersweet artichoke liqueurs - hardly

Affinity

A spirituous aperitivo-style cocktail, or an after-dinner sipper, which can be made with numerous different sweet vermouths or indeed a vermouth amaro

Bitter Grapefruit

Grapefruit influenced and Negroni in style.

Challenger Deep

This aperitif style cocktail has chocolaty notes with faint rich herbal complexity from the Chartreuse.