Americano

Taste

An ounce and a half each of Campari and sweet vermouth, then soda over ice. Equal pours, so bitter orange and grape sit level, and the soda stretches both into something you can drink for an hour. Low proof, and it stays bitter to the end. An orange twist goes over the top.

History

Gaspare Campari put his bitter together with Turin vermouth at the Caffe Campari on Milan's Piazza del Duomo in the 1860s and called it the Milano-Torino, after where the two bottles came from. Adding soda made it the Americano, American-style, though the name first belonged to a category: Italian producers sold vermouth with bitters already in it as vermouth americano, and Ferruccio Mazzon's 1920 Il Barista prints two different Americanos. It is the first drink Bond orders in Casino Royale. Here it is an ounce and a half each of Campari and sweet vermouth over ice, topped with soda, with an orange twist over it.

• Difford's Guide, Americano
• Difford's Guide, Milano Torino

Same shape, other bottles

The Highball family, with the bottle that changed.

• Campari & Tonictonic water for soda water
• Sherry & Tonicsherry and tonic water for sweet vermouth and soda water
• Vermouth & Tonictonic water for soda water
• Fernet and Gingerginger beer for soda water
• Elderflower Collinswith gin and lemon juice
• Gin & Tonictonic water for soda water