Negroni
1/3 gin
1/3 sweet vermouth
1/3 campari
Soda water optional
Build the gin, vermouth and campari into a tall glass over ice, add soda water if desired. Add half a slice of orange.
Serve with a stirrer.

Bellini
1/3 mango juice
1/3 champagne chilled
Served with a slice of mango.

Bestitalian
2 measure apricot brandy
1 1/2 measure orange juice
1 1/2 measure pineapple juice
1 scoop pistacchio ice cream

Martini
Available in red or white both sweet. The dry white is labelled secco. Martini have also added a rosato (rose').

Campari
Is made from herbs, the peel of bitter oranges and
quinine bark steeped in spirit. Try drinking it with wine. wine.

Cynar
A bitter sweet drink made from the essence
of artichokes, it is drunk with soda and lemon as an aperitif, or neat as digestive.

Sambucca
Colourless liqueur that tastes like aniseed, served
(con mosche) with flies, coffee beans floating on the
surface, roasted or flamb�ed as they are brought to your table.

Amaretto di Saronno
This legendary Italian liqueur was created about 1525 by a poor, beautiful young widow, as a gift to the artist Bernardino Luini, a member of the Leonardo da Vinci School. Delicious and romantic liqueur.

Fernet Branca
A bitter, highly herby, faintly medicinal drink that, say the Italians, cures all ills. The Menta variety is attempt to make it more palatable.

Grappa
Every country has its equivalent of fire water. This is Italy's, made from the distillations of the stalks and pips. Overdosing guarantees a hangover.

Strega
Herbs soaked in spirit, rather like Benedictine; the word means witch and a man and a woman who drink it together are meant to be united for ever.

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