We asked nine of America’s top bartenders to submit their finest recipe for the Kingston Negroni—then blind-tasted them all to find the best of the best (via punch_drink)
“When Phil Ward tried it for the first time, he gave it the highest praise possible,” recalls Simó, referencing Death & Co.’s head bartender at the time. “He said, ‘It doesn’t suck.’” With that feedback from the, Simó felt no need to tinker with the recipe, which landed on the Death & Co. menu in 2010. By fall of that year, it had already traveled across the country, appearing on the cocktail menu at Rickhouse, an early influential San Francisco bar.
“The Negroni is a celebration of Campari,” explains Simó, “but the Kingston Negroni was designed around the rum.” Indeed, part of the drink’s early appeal was its ability to recast rum in a new role.
The objective was not to identify a recipe that most closely resembled the original, but to sample a snapshot of the drink as it currently appears in the wild, homing in on those that still read as archetypal, while managing to bring something fresh to the template, whether it be a novel rum selection, ratio or garnish. “The fact that you can have this much variety speaks to how vast the categories have gotten,” noted Simó partway through the tasting.
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