Pour Campari, gin and sweet red vermouth directly into an Old-fashioned glass filled with ice cubes. Stir gently with a bar spoon. Add a splash of club soda. Garnisha with half an orange slice and serve.

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The Negroni cocktail is made of 1 part gin, 1 part sweet vermouth, and 1 part bitters, traditionally Campari. It is considered an aperitif, a pre-dinner cocktail intended to stimulate the appetite. While the drink's origins are obscured by time, the most widely reported version is that it was invented in Florence, Italy in 1919, at Caffe Casoni, now called Caffe Giacosa. Count Camillo Negroni invented it by asking the bartender, Fosco Scarselli, to strengthen his favorite cocktail, the Americano, by adding gin rather than the normal soda water. The bartender also added an orange garnish rather than the typical lemon garnish of the Americano to signify that it was a different drink. After the success of the cocktail, the Negroni Family founded Negroni Distillerie in Treviso, Italy, and produced a ready-made version of the drink, sold as Antico Negroni 1919. One of the earliest reports of the drink came from Orson Welles in correspondence with the Coshocton Tribune while working in Rome on Cagliostro in 1947, where he described a new ...

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