Cocktail recipe
Garibaldi
Bitter red Campari meets an impossibly fluffy cloud of fresh orange.
Ingredients
- 45 ml (1½ oz) Campari
- 120 ml (4 oz) freshly squeezed orange juice, aerated
- Garnish: 1 orange wedge
Preparation
Aerate freshly squeezed orange juice until it turns light and foamy. Add Campari to an ice-filled highball, pour in the orange and give the drink only a gentle stir so the foam survives. Garnish with a fresh orange wedge.
Glassware
Highball glass, cubed ice
History
The Garibaldi is an Italian two-ingredient aperitivo named for Giuseppe Garibaldi, the 19th-century Italian unification figure. A common symbolic reading joins Campari from Milan in the north to oranges associated with southern Italy; it is evocative but not a documented statement by a named inventor. Its original bartender and exact date are not securely known. The exceptionally aerated “fluffy orange” technique became internationally famous through Dante in New York, a modern service innovation rather than evidence that Dante invented the underlying drink.
Mixology View
Aerating the orange changes the texture completely, but the drink should remain recognizably just bitter aperitivo and fruit.