Happy Negroni Week
by, Livio Lauro

As we are into day 3 of my favorite cocktail week, I wanted to give a quick rundown of this 7-day celebration that helps provide money for charities around the world.

For one week, bars and restaurants will mix classic Negronis and Negroni variations for a great cause. This gives birth to hundreds of delicious Negroni variations from across the world. To find a bar near you visit NegroniWeek.com

The classic Negroni is the perfect combination of three ingredients that were magically put together as a joint effort between Barman Fosco Scarselli and his bar patron Camillo Negroni in 1919 at the Bar Casoni in Florence, Italy. While the vast majority of the Negroni riffs we see globally featured during Negroni week and beyond are really good, my guess is that the two of them occasionally roll their eyes in heaven when they hear about some of the spin-offs that are associated to their masterpiece.

This bring me to discuss 5 lesser-known classics that are part of the Negroni family tree. I have listed them below with a brief history and if you’d like to see more you can click on my latest video and check out 14 Old-School Negroni variations some of which date back to the 1860’s.