COCKTAILS
The Artista’s recipes
Artista’s Orange Cocktail
ARTISTA'S COOLER
LIVORNO MULE
Artista’s Lady
ARTISTA'S SPRITZ
Artista’s Negroni
AN AMERICAN IN LIVORNO
Artista’s Orange Cocktail
A simple, delicate and enveloping cocktail: this is our Artists’ Orange Cocktail.
The spicy notes, aromatic and citrus tones of Artista blend perfectly with those of orange juice (even better if biological). Giving birth to a unique aroma able to give even the most demanding of palates a pleasant surprise.
INGREDIENTS
Fresh Orange Juice to top up
METHOD
GARNISHMENT
ARTISTA'S COOLER
The original recipe has been attributed to the owner of a famous club in Alassio, the first importer of one of the most well-known Industrial Rums, in the ‘80s. As the name implies, Cooler indicates how it is to be served, i.e., in a large tumbler with lots of ice. Artista lends enveloping, sensual, timeless notes to the recipe. Tasting is believing!
INGREDIENTS
30 ml of White Rum
2 dashes of Angostura (the pinch of salt in the drink world)
2 wedges of fresh lime
2 wedges of fresh lemon
Half a teaspoonful of cane sugar
Chilled Ginger Ale to top up
METHOD
GARNISHMENT
No Garnish.
LIVORNO MULE
Strange though it may seem, the original Moscow Mule recipe has nothing to do with either Moscow or Russia! Invented in Los Angeles, California in 1941, it owes its name to its vodka content, a Russian distilled alcoholic beverage. Adding a few dashes of Artista lends the cocktail a balanced sweet flavour that blends in perfect harmony with the pungent notes in Ginger Beer
INGREDIENTS
30 ml vodka
120 ml of Ginger Beer
10 ml of fresh lime juice
METHOD
Pour the contents into a foodsafe copper mug and stir delicately.
GARNISHMENT
Garnish with a slice of fresh lime, a twist of cucumber/fresh ginger.
Artista’s Lady
Many claim paternity to the original White Lady, but nobody is quite sure who invented it.
The most accredited version is that it affords its origins to Harry MacElhone in 1919. He prepared it for a lady dressed in white, who suddenly felt faint on entering his bar but then came round after having taken only a sip of her cocktail. Artista’s Lady is a revisited version of this great classic, switching the triple sec to Artista, to give life to a cocktail with an even more enveloping long-lasting, timeless flavour.
INGREDIENTS
40 ml of gin
20 ml of fresh lemon juice
METHOD
GARNISHMENT
ARTISTA'S SPRITZ
With the colours of a golden Italian sunset, this inviting and refreshing cocktail has a low alcoholic content and reigns undisputedly over other apéritifs. Its origins date back to the period of the Habsburg domination in the Veneto region in the 1800s, under the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. The soldiers were not used to Veneto’s wines and their high alcohol content and so they asked the local hosts to “spray” a bit of sparkling water into them (spritzen, to spray in German) to make them less boozy. The Artista ‘s Spritz lends a unique, alluring herbal aroma to this great classical long drink, by switching the Aperol or Campari content to Artista.
INGREDIENTS
60 ml of chilled Prosecco wine
A dash of soda water, club soda, or tonic water
METHOD
Half-fill a large white wine glass with ice cubes, pour the ingredients onto the ice and add a dash of soda, stir gently.
GARNISHMENT
Garnish with a slice of fresh orange.
VARIATIONS
The Prosecco wine can be substituted by a sparkling white wine and/or the soda by sparkling water.
Artista’s Negroni
More than a century old, Negroni resists over time and remains one of the most popular cocktails in Italy and the world. It originated in Florence in 1919, when Count Camillo Negroni, the cosmopolitan nobleman of Italian origin the drink was later named after, wanted a version of the Americano he had tasted in New York with a bit more kick to it. So, he asked the bartender to switch the soda water for gin.
Artista’s Negroni has switched things again, this time substituting Campari with Artista to lend an alluring, seductive, delicate finish.
INGREDIENTS
30 ml of Gin
30 ml of Red Vermouth
METHOD
GARNISHMENT
Garnish with a slice of fresh orange.
UN AMERICANO A LIVORNO
Famous as the “Father of the Negroni”, it is, without doubt, yet another timeless classical apéritif. It was first created by Gaspere Campari in 1860 and was renamed in the ‘30s in honour of Primo Carnera, the first Italian boxer to rise to fame in America, which led to his being affectionately nicknamed, the American , “L’Americano.”
An American in Livorno substitutes Artista for the classical original ingredient Campari to give life to a unique, unexpected aroma, one that pleasantly surprises any palate.
INGREDIENTS
30 ml of Red Vermouth
A dash of soda water, club soda, or tonic water
METHOD
Fill a lowball (old-fashioned glass) with ice cubes, then pour the ingredients onto the ice. Stir gently.
GARNISHMENT
Garnish with a slice of fresh orange and a twist of lemon peel.
AMICO FRITZ
Noto per essere il “padre” del Negroni, è indiscutibilmente un altro classico intramontabile degli aperitivi. Creato da Gaspare Campari intorno al 1860, prese il nome attuale solo negli anni ’30, per celebrare il successo di Primo Carnera, il primo pugile italiano con una vittoria oltreoceano, che venne soprannominato appunto, l’Americano. Un Americano a Livorno sostituisce l’amaro al Vermouth rosso presente nella ricetta originale, per dare vita ad un gusto unico e inaspettato, in grado di stupire qualsiasi palato.
INGREDIENTI
4,5 cl di Artista
3 cl di succo di limone
1 cl di sciroppo di zucchero
8 cl di soda
2 dash di angostura
METODO
GUARNIZIONE
ARTISTA IN SIDECAR
INGREDIENTI
5 cl di Artista
2 cl di Triple Sec
2 cl di succo di limone
METODO
GUARNIZIONE
MASCAGNI
INGREDIENTI
6 cl di Artista
2 cl di Cointreau
Frutti di bosco
Basilico
METODO
GUARNIZIONE
MADAME SITRÌ
INGREDIENTI
4 cl di Artista
2 cl di liquore alla pesca
4 cl di succo di arancia 2 cl di purea di cranberry
