Cachaça, stirred
Brazilian Negroni
Barline 1q,Q,Q,Ro
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 1 1/4 oz Cachaça
- 3/4 oz Campari
- 3/4 oz Sweet vermouth
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Rocks, iced, orange twist.
Taste
An ounce and a quarter of cachaça against three-quarters each of Campari and sweet vermouth. The cane spirit leads a little; Campari is still a third of the drink. Stirred, rocks with ice, orange twist. A Negroni in sugarcane, grassy and bitter orange.
History
Swap gin for cachaça in a Negroni and the drink is a Brazilian Negroni, a substitution that spread with cachaça's craft revival in the 2000s. Difford's and later books print it as a Negroni ratio on cachaça. This menu pours an ounce and a quarter of cachaça against three-quarters each of Campari and sweet vermouth, over ice with an orange twist, so the cane leads the way the Boulevardier lets bourbon lead.
Same shape, other bottles
The Negroni family, with the bottle that changed.
- Boulevardierbourbon for cachaça
- Kingston Negroniaged rum for cachaça
- Mezcal Negronimezcal for cachaça
- Negronigin for cachaça
- Rabo de GaloCynar for Campari
- Cardinalegin and dry vermouth for cachaça and sweet vermouth
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour.