Aperol Spritz

The APEROL SPRITZ

Italy's Hottest Cocktail

aka

APERTIVO

  

The Aperol Spritz is Super Hot! No, not hot, as in temperature wise, but

hot as in popular. It's the drink of the moment. A drink I've known of since my

first exploratory trip to Venice, to do research on Venetian Wine Bars (Bacaro) of

which I was planning on and did open in New York's Greenwich Village.

It was at a Bacaro (Venetian Wine Bar) in Venice that I had my first Spritz.

Venice is where these refreshing Italian drinks were invented and it was

in Venice that I had my first some 20 years ago, a good 15 years before most 

Americans ever heard of them. Same thing with me and the Negroni, which

I discovered and have been drinking since 1985, my first of many wonderful

trips to my ancestral Motherland, Italy.

Anyway, fast forward to 2105. I just came back from Capri & The Amalfi Coast

in Italy. I had a wonderful time; swimming in the waters surround Capri everyday

before going back to my hotel to take a shower and little nap before going out for the evening.

Going out at night? I'd go out to a wonderful meal each night, but before going

to my favorite restaurant I'd stop off at Bar Tiberius or Caffe da Alberto at the

Piazza Umberto for a little apertivo before dinner. Such fun sitting at a outdoor table

at Bar Tiberius as I did way back in 1988 and having a nice refreshing drink in the lively

Piazza Umberto before moving on to dinner. Back in 88 I had a daily ritual of getting up, having a lovely Italian breakfast of Cappuccino, Cornetto, fresh Blood Orange Juice, and Yoghurt before heading for one of Capri's gorgeous beaches and a day of swimming and relaxing on the lovely Mediterranean Sea. What's better than that?

 

PIAZZA UMBERTO

CAPRI by NIGHT

I'd swim for a couple hours in the morning, then go to a nearby restaurant or caffe for a little lunch, then back to the beach to late afternoon, before hopping on the little local bus up to the Piazza Umberto, Capri's most popular piazza of all.

I'd then meet up with some friends for a drink or two before heading back to my hotel 

(La Toasca) for a little nap, and then back to Bar Tiberius for another operative before dinner, and after dinner it was on to the bar at the Palma Hotel for drinks and good times with friends.

Oh what a life?

That's the story of; Me, Capri, and My Campari, Granita, or a nice refreshing

Aperol Spritz ... Basta!

Author Daniel Bellino "Z and Cousin Tony

Having Cappuccino here, but this is where they take Aperitivo

at BAR FAUNO

SORRENTO

ITALY

CAMPARI and APEROL SPRITZ 'S

It's APERITIVO TIME

at BAR FAUNO For Cousins Daniel and Anthony Bellino

Everyday at Bar Fauno at Piazza Tasso

SORRENTO 

ITALY

HOW to MAKE ONE

INGREDIENTS :

3 ounces PROSECCO

2 ounces APEROL

1 ounce CLUB SODA

1 Slice of ORNAGE

ICE

1. Fill a nice clear GLASS 3/4 full with ICE

2. Add a slice of ORNGE

3.  Add PROSECCO

4.  Add APEROL

5.  Add CLUB SODA

6. Stir

7. Serve

8. ENJOY !!!

APEROL

 

PROSECCO

A SLICE of ORANGE

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A SPLASH of CLUB SODA

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VOILA !!!!

An APEROL SPRITZ !

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Pour The APEROL

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 Bellino Vermouth

Old Poster

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LEARN HOW to MAKE The PERFECT NEGRONI

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RECIPE in SUNDAY SAUCE

by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

MAKE a CAMPARI SPRITZ

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CAMPARI & SODA

With CAMPARI

My APEROL SPRITZ

 

CAPRI

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Gorgeous View From The Top of Mt. Solaro

Looking Down on The Faraglioni

 

 

 

 

MARINA PICOLO

A Favorite Beach on Capri

CAPRI TAXI

This is One of The Few Remaining Old Taxis

of

CAPRI

Most All of The Lovely Old Topless Taxis of Capri

Have Been Replace by Newer Cars That Don't Have

1/10 The Charm of The Old One Like This One

One of The Few Left in Service

Take It !

The QUISSISANNA

CAPRI'S MOST FAMED HOTEL

A ShorT Distance From PIAZZA UMBERTO

The Center of Capri

 

MY FAVORITE LEMONADE STAND in CAPRI

Just Behind The Quissisana

Across From The Gardens of Caeser Augustus

&

The Carthusian Monastary of St Giacomo

CAPRI

in Painting

The Saddle of Capri

And MARINA GRANDE

Your 1st Entry into CAPRI

The Famed BLUE GROTTO 

A Boatman at The Blue Grotta

On My Way to Capri

Faraglioni

This is The Boat You Take From Faraglioni

to Get To Marina Picolo

5 Euros

LEMONS of CAPRI

For LEMONCELLO

The LEMONCELLO SHOP

Via Muth

Some Cliffs of Capri

and

Saricen Towers

St. SOPHIA

Anacacpri

Grotta Azzurra Bar, Capri

Lemonade or Fresh Orange Juice

at

A Lemeonade Stand, CAPRI

All Photos Copyright 2015 Daniel Bellin Zwicke

SUNDAY SAAUCE

by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

The FEAST of The 7 FISH

ITALIAN CHRISTMAS

La TAVOLA

Italian-American New Yorkers

Adventures of The Table

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

The NEGRONI COCKTAIL

THE NEGRONI

    The Negroni? A question? A question to some? Most of America probably. Many so-called sophisticates have been drinking this “The Negroni” quite a bit in the past 4 years or so. The truly sophisticated, worldly folks have known about them far longer. Me? I’ve been drinking this great Italian-Cocktail for some 28 years now. Yes, I’ve been drinking Negroni’s ever since my first at a Bar in la Bella Roma back in the Summer of 1985. Rome, “The Eternal City” is where I had my first, on that marvelous first trip to Bella Italia. I was quite a young man, and that trip was completely magical, discovering real Italian “Italian Food” for the very first time, I had my first true Bolognese, Spaghetti Carbonara, Coda di Vacinara, Bucatini Amatriciana, Gelato, and a true Italian Espresso, “Oh Bliss!” Yes it was. I saw The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Moses at San Pietro en Vincole (Saint Peter in Chains), I saw the Coliseum, The Roman Forum, The Duomo in Florence, Venice and The Grand Canal, Positano, Capri, Napoli, and so much more. Yes the trip was magical. It was magical hanging out at a Bar in the Piazza Popolo drinking my first Campari, and that first of a thousand Negroni’s, or more. Many American’s are just discov-ering its charms, “me and the Negroni,” we go way back; in Rome, Venice, Capri, Positano, Capri, Verona, Bologna, I’ve had Negroni’s all over. And many in New York in restaurants and bars all over Manhattan, and Staten Island where I drink some of the best Negroni’s I’ve ever had, certainly in New York, at my buddy Pat Parotta’s house in Staten Island. Pat pours an awesome Negroni, better than any bartender in the city. He makes them with love and when I go to one of his wonderful little dinner parties, that’s the first thing I have. It’s tradition for us now. Leaving my house in Greenwich Village, I hop on the 1 Train and take it down to the Battery to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. I hop on the ferry, ride across New York Harbor, passing the gorgeous Lady Liberty (The Statue of Liberty) along the way.  I get off the ferry. Pat picks me up at the terminal on the Staten Island side. We go to house, and I’m not through the door two minutes and he’s mixing up a nice one. A Negroni that is! Well 2 that is, one for me, and a Negroni for himself. We drink great Italian Wine at those dinner parties, and some of Pat’s tasty food. But we always start it off with our ritualistic Negroni’s alla Patty “P” and you should too.

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THE NEGRONI

Basic Recipe:

 1 ounce Campari

1 ounce Sweet Vermouth

1 ounce Gin

Ice

Orange

1. Fill a Rocks-Glass or Highball Glass with Ice.

2)  Add Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin.

3) Stir ingredients. Garnish with a piece of Orange Peel or slice of Orange.

Note: Orsen Wells after discovering the Negroni while writing a screenplay in Rome, wrote in a correspon-dence back home that he had discovered a delightful Italian Cocktail, “The Negroni.”  Welles stated,

“It is made of Bitter Campari which is good for the liver, and of Gin which is bad.

The two balance each other out.”

photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

THE BELLINO NEGRONI

    For me, this is the Perfect Negroni. The basic Negroni recipe calls for 3 equal parts(1 oz.) each of Camapari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin in a glass filled with ice, and garnished with an Orange Peel.

    For the most perfectly balanced Negroni, I put in slightly less Campari  (3/4 oz.),  ¾ ounce of Gin, a little more Sweet Vermouth with 1 ¼ ounces, over Ice, add  a tiny spalsh of Club Soda and Garnish with a good  size  piece of Orange. Voila! The Perfect Negroni. Enjoy!

THE NEGRONI is Excerpted From Daniel Bellino-Zwicke 's  SUNDAY SAUCE

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