Cocktail Classics with History

Glorious misconception. Famous cocktails have come about in all sorts of ways throughout history. Sometimes it was pure chance that directed them. The Negroni Sbagliato, for example, owes its existence not to a brilliant idea but simply to a mistake ("sbagliato" means "wrong"). The drink was created in the 1950s in the Basso Bar in Milan. There, it is said, the bartender Mirko Stocchetti invented it - purely by chance, when he mistakenly reached for the Prosecco instead of the gin bottle. For the classic Negroni was conceived in Florence in 1919 by Count Camillo Negroni - and with gin. In any case, the result is one of the most famous cocktails in the world, created by a mistake.