Blackberry season is just ending here in the woods, but I can still find a few on the bushes just off our deck. I was shooting a new restaurant in Napa recently that features a Negroni on their menu and I thought, oh!, what a lovely end-of-summer cocktail.
A traditional Negroni is garnished with an orange twist, but since there aren’t many oranges around here these days, I garnished mine with a few blackberries…and I’ll say, it’s pretty delish!
Blackberry Negroni: Equal parts Gin, Campari and (sweet/red) Vermouth. I stirred mine in the mixing glass you see above from Umami Mart. Serve it chilled or on the rocks. Garnish with a blackberry and sip outdoors when the sun is getting low and golden!
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More warm-weather drink ideas: Nectarine Campari Soda, Strawberry-Maple Fizz, Blackberry Shrub Mocktail.