NIO Negroni, ready mixed cocktail, 100ml

The history of cocktails: Negroni

Florence 1919 or 1920. At the time, Count Camillo Negroni was a regular at the aristocratic Caffè Casoni. One day he wanted something a little bit stronger than his usual Americano so he asked Fosco Scarselli, the barman, to add a dash of gin rather than soda to the drink, in honour of his recent trips to London. The new cocktail became ‘the usual’ for the Count and soon the ‘Count Negroni-style Americano aperitif’ for everybody else. In the 1950s, the cocktail became very popular in Italy and then worldwide with even Ian Fleming citing the Negroni Cocktail in one of the episodes of his famous James Bond saga.