The Cocktails Must Flow

Our second cocktail is the Apricot Royale. A simple combination of apricot brandy and prosecco.

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Our first cocktail is the Negroni Bianco. An intriguing Negroni variant whic is less bitter and dry than the original, made possible by the launch of Luxardo Bitter Bianco liqueur in 2016.

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On the 27^th May 1941, the British Navy succeeded in sinking the German battleship Bismarck, named for Otto von Bismarck, a German politician who was Chancellor of Germany between 1871 and 1890, in a battle lasting several days.

In memory of the sinking of the Bismarck, we’re sharing a cocktail named for the German chancellor, the Bismarck.

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Our third and final cocktail is the Valencia Cocktail No. 1. The Valencia cocktail No. 1 featured in Harry Craddock’s 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book and has a No. 2 variant which adds champagne.

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Our second cocktail is the Imperial Fizz (also called a Whiskey Fizz). A fizz style cocktail is one which uses water and sugar for the fizz, its “Imperial” title suggests a drink of superior quality and would traditionally have been made with a blended whiskey (if only because until the 1960s, blended whiskey is all anyone drank).

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Our first cocktail is the Americano, which was first served at Gaspare Campari’s bar in Milan, Italy, in the 1860s. The name is thought to stem from it’s popularity with American tourists.. We’ve previously posted the Milano Torino and described it as a precursor to the Negroni, but the Americano came between the two of them, where it is reputed the Count Camillo Negroni asked for the soda water in the Americano be replaced with gin.

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Our third cocktail is the Porto Tonico. A traditional Portuguese aperitivo, similar to England’s Gin & Tonic.

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Our second and final cocktail is the Planter’s Punch. An official IBA cocktail, the Planter’s Punch originated in Jamaica and has a simple rhyme to remember the ingredients; “one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak”.

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Our first cocktail is the Limoncello Negroni. A surprisingly pleasant lemon variant of the Negroni[/link], which uses limoncello in place of the sweet vermouth.

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