Negroni

THE DRINK IS AROMATIC, not just in terms of volatile esters, but in terms of nostalgia for its early twentieth century origins. It's a cafe drink, from a forgotten world unlike ours of today. It recalls Ezra Pound before he went full fash and had to be put in a cage, Ernest Hemingway talking loudly over the top of him and everybody else about his leftist credentials, Gertrude Bell drawing arbitrary lines on maps in the Middle East, Europeans watching the Russians suspiciously, Americans withdrawing from the world, the financial markets crashing, like I said, nothing like today. Why not make a cocktail and enjoy the ennui?

• 3 parts gin (Archie Rose signature)
• 2 parts vermouth Rosso (Dolin)
• 2 parts Campari

Slice a fresh orange and pour over ice.