Campari cocktail recipes for sophisticated summertime refreshment

Iced Campari cocktails have become an integral part of sophisticated drinks for summer refreshment in Mediterranean countries. This unique spirit combines herbs, spices and fruit peels into a specialty blend that mingles well with soda and juices. When mixed just right the flavor refreshes in a balanced way that won’t overpower the palate as some summertime sweet cocktails seem to. 

 

Bartender, Jason Lara, created the Ginger Rogers cocktail for Social Hollywood in Los Angeles. This cocktail muddles fresh Clementine fruit and strawberry for a colorful and market fresh flavor feel summer treat. Danny Misch created the Campari Margarita for Morandi in New York. This is an evolutionary cocktail as it takes the classic Margarita and tweaks it into something beyond the boundary of ordinary by adding in Campari. Campari gives the Margarita color and distinctive flavor for a new summer cocktail experience.

 

The photo drink recipe slide show below contains 10 Campari cocktails including the Ginger Rogers and Campari Margarita. Two classic cocktails, Negroni and Americano, may also be found as well as contemporary recipes such as the Tivoli Cocktail, Boulevardier, Buono Rosso and Naughty Dog among others.

 

 

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