Negroni

Negroni Week is back, which gives me a perfectly respectable excuse to spend rather more time than usual thinking about one of my favourite drinks. At its heart, the Negroni is beautifully simple: three ingredients, traditionally in equal measures, stirred with ice. But it’s also remarkably accommodating. Change the gin, vermouth or bitter element and you can take the same basic structure somewhere completely different.

Negroni Week is an annual celebration of one of the world’s most versatile cocktails, and at our Duke Street bar in Padstow, we’ve been shaking (or rather stirring) up plenty of inspiration. So I thought I'd share five of our favourite ways to mix a Negroni at home.

When made with our Spiced Cranberry & Orange Gin, this favourite amongst our Duke Street regulars takes on a roundness and depth that lands it firmly in the Autumn/Winter Cocktails category. I always think of this as a 'Halloween onwards' drink, and it definitely has a hint of the festive season about it...