Cocktail "Aperol-syringe" - trend youth summer drink
Just a couple of years ago, you could have accidentallytry a cocktail on the basis of sparkling wine and bitter (it can be "Aperol" or "Campari") at someone at a party on the weekend. Now it has gained real popularity and has become one of the most trendy summer youth cocktails in the world. The drink of the summer of 2013 firmly stands on its way to the title of "World Aperitif", and the name to it is a cocktail "Syringe-Aperol", the recipe of which we now learn.
Briefly about cocktails
Today it is impossible to imagine any fashionablea party, a presentation, a gala dinner, an official reception without a wide variety of cocktails that will satisfy everyone's tastes. A cocktail is an alcoholic beverage based on one or more alcoholic components. Cocktails today are becoming increasingly popular and popular, some of them are becoming more recognizable. In the 20-ies of the twentieth century in the United States was declared a dry law, and it was then that real fame among drinkers found alcoholic cocktails. Trying to hide the taste of alcohol, mixed different drinks with degrees, most often mixing to the gin sugar syrup, lemon juice, sometimes the second alcoholic component was, for example, a sparkling dry wine. Drinks became more and more popular, and so new and new cocktails were invented. Fashion for them quickly spread to Europe. In Paris, London, Venice, you could taste a classic popular cocktail at that time in a hotel or bar, or at a "cocktail party," which even then became popular with young people.
Cocktail "Syringe-Aperol"
History of creation
Orange liqueur was invented back in 1919brothers Barbieri in the city of Padua. Originally developed for health and appetite, after a meal - to improve digestion. "Aperol" is sweeter and with a lower alcohol content - only 11 percent. Herbal bitterness (gentian, rhubarb), bitter and sweet oranges, spices perfectly came to the well-known at the beginning of the last century cocktails "syringes", which included local wine and non-alcoholic tonic. As a result, and appeared "Aperol-syringe" - tart, tonic and refreshing.
In those years, the town was part of theAustro-Hungarian Empire, it was the Austrians who came up with the idea of diluting the Venetian wines with soda, so Austria also has to do with the origin of the "Aperol", at least, disputes about this are still being conducted.
Recipe
There are numerous variations of cookingcocktail in a certain area, and each bartender has his own recipe. Ingredients should be sufficiently cooled, usually a dry white wine (Prosecco or sparkling) and sparkling water (40% wine, 30% water and 30% aperitif).
The last 30% can be changed to tastebartender. Decoration is a slice of an orange and, possibly, an olive. This is the classic proportions of the cocktail "Aperol-syringe", the recipe of which you can learn and taste in Verona and Venice. The barman falls asleep a handful of ice in a glass, then pours a half to wine, tops it with a soda and generously pours it all over with an aperitif - from the heart and how much it will fit in, decorates with a slice of orange and olive to taste. Serve "Aperol-syringe" in wide glasses, also add ice. Of course, you can use "Campari" instead of "Aperol", but you will get a stronger cocktail of saturated dark red color, and its taste will be more bitter. To get real and real taste, it is advised to use a classic aperitif. So the drink will have a more sweet and pungent taste, and you will get a true "Aperol-syringe". Serve it with classic Italian snacks.
