As someone who enjoys her gin with the minimal tonic and a twist of lemon, the Negroni is one cocktail that is my go-to when there's time to savour something subtle but sophisticated.
With the annual Negroni Week around the corner, it is only fair to dig a little bit into the history of this delicious concoction. As the story goes, the cocktail supposedly originated in Florence in 1919. The most commonly accepted story involves a nobleman named Count Camillo Negroni, a regular at Caffè Casoni in Florence. One day, he asked the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to make his favourite cocktail, the Americano, but with a bit more kick. Instead of soda water, he requested he add gin.