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There are waves in the drinks world. Ideas that roll around and smash together to create rolling peaks where everyone seems to talk about the same thing for a short time. I really like negronis, and having seen a bunch of mentions of them and the negroni family over the past week, I better jump on before my metaphor breaks. Negroni variation #1: the Boulevardier.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I blame Stanley Tucci. This time last year, we were all getting used to lockdown and trying to order fancy drinks from whatever establishment would fling them in our direction. The negroni was too simple \u2013\u00a0just three bottles, equal measures, in a glass, with some ice. We wanted something only a professional could make. Something we couldn\u2019t make on our own.<\/p>\n Then Stanley Tucci made a negroni.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B_NkcbTgVfy\/<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n It\u2019s not a good negroni. In some ways, it\u2019s not even a negroni. Use vodka if you don\u2019t like gin? Shake it? Serve it up? In a coupe?<\/p>\n He is a monster.<\/p>\n However, he\u2019s a monster with strangely popular forearms and a disregard for anyone\u2019s comments on his negroni. He liked it and his Instagram account is now loaded with more cocktail videos, all horrifically popular. Well played, Stanley Tucci.<\/p>\n Now, almost a year later, we\u2019re back to having the prospect of bars opening again dangled in front of us, but we\u2019re also back to making whatever drinks we can make at home, at home. You may not have all the things you need to make a negroni, but why not play with it and make something you can make, and might like even better? Be more Stanley.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve written about negronis<\/a> before. I even recorded a video about them<\/a> in response to Mr Tucci\u2019s abomination. But that was almost a year ago. One of the things that has revived the concept of playing with negronis recently is this video from Lewis Hayes of Merchant House.<\/p>\n He might tell us off at first for going off plan, but then he jumps in and tells us to play around with the drink.<\/p>\n Double up the gin. Switch out gin for soda and make an Americano. Switch in rum, Tequila, mezcal. No rules.<\/p>\n But recently, my go to is the variant he talks about the most \u2013\u00a0The Boulevardier.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s my standard negroni variation, recently I was kicked into drinking more of them by Richard Godwin\u2019s the Spirits<\/a> newsletter.<\/p>\n ~ THE BOULEVARDIER ~<\/strong> Stir everything in an old-fashioned glass with lots of ice, ideally, one massive cube. Garnish with an orange or lemon zest twist!<\/em><\/p>\n THE Boulevardier is what you get when a Manhattan beds a Negroni. It has the rugged bourbon heft of the former and the continental sophistication of the latter. An \u00dcbercocktail!\u00a0<\/p>\nNegroani<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s a negroni?<\/h2>\n
What\u2019s a Boulevardier?<\/h2>\n
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40ml bourbon
25ml Italian vermouth
25ml Campari<\/p>\n