Finally the most magic period of the year is here: houses are decorated and there are many occasion to spend time with people you love.
Probably you will pay great attention to menu for lunches and dinners with friends and family..you should organize a perfectly balanced aperitif, elegant but also informal, with the perfect food and cocktails (the so called “pairing”): the best way to put guests at ease and prepare for the best dishes.
Due to NIO Cocktails you should concentrate only on cooking…the ready-to-drink cocktails with the recipes of one of the best bartender in the world (Patrick Pistolesi) and with premium quality spiritis, will assure you the best of quality and a touch of innovation and glamour. Don’t be obvious!
Holidays aperitif.
Aperitif moment represents conviviality, light-heartedness and fun. It’a an Italian tradition to preserve at the bar but also at home. Actually, especially on Christmas holidays, nothing is better than meeting at home your friends to drink a cocktails with the perfect Christmas atmosphere. Anyway, it’s quite difficult to create at home our favourite cocktails. Sometimes, you should buy many spirits only to mix one cocktails and you, probably, don’t have the expertise of your favourite bartender! NIO Cocktails is the solution! You can receive at home premium cocktails already perfectly mixed with only premium ingredients. Do you need only ice and glass. The perfect aperitif is ready! Thanks to NIO Cocktails your aperitif at home can really become an opportunity for relaxation and fun.
Imagine a winter evening. Outside is cold and your home is embellished and ready to host your friends. Air smells of cinnamon and mistletoe and lights are soft. You only have to prepare some appetizers to offer to your friends. NIO will care about cocktails.
The perfect cocktails for aperitif.
We suggest you perfect cocktails to taste during the aperitif. You can decide whether to compose your box with all the various cocktails to try different flavours, or if you already know which is your favourite cocktail you can also decide to compose a single-flavour box. It is the perfectl solution for aperitifs at home during the holiday season, but also an original and exclusive gift for anyone who appreciates the quality and loves to spend moments of absolute relaxation even at home.
Anyway, let’s talk about cocktails...
The perfect Italian aperitif: a cocktail bar in your living room.
Are you organizing a perfect Italian aperitif with traditional food from Italy?
Try two classical italian cocktails: Negroni and Milano-Torino. Two cocktails with strong flavors, intense, bitter, timeless.
Negroni ha also the most curious and interesting story. It was created in 1919 at Caffè Casoni in Florence when count Camillo Negroni asked the bartender Fosco Scarzelli a stronger Americano, which was his favourite cocktail.
The barman used a bit of gin instead of soda, so Negroni was born. Soon, people went to Caffè Casoni to taste Negroni cocktail, which became the Italian aperitif par excellence and one of the best Campari cocktail. Our master mixologist, Patrick Pistolesi, created a unique recipe for NIO Cocktails, mixing it with: Gin Tanqueray, Vermouth Cocchi, Bitter Campari and Angostura. Only the premium quality ingredients to an exceptional tasting experience.
The Milano-Torino: It is another symbol of Italian aperitif. It was created at Caffè Milano by Gaspare Campari in 1860, and it was for a long time a classical Campari cocktail.
This coccktail simply contains vermouth from Turin and Campari from Milan to create a strong but balanced taste, because Vermouth attenuate the bitter taste of Campari. Garnished with a touch of orange, the Mi-To is a fresh and refined cocktail that will bring you back to the simplest times and flavors.
NIO Cocktails propose it with: Vermouth Cocchi, Bitter Campari and Angostura.
The two cocktaisl are both perfect for the aperitif food who many people prefer: focaccia. In fact, the bitter goes well with those oily or buttery dishes that need to refresh and cleanse the palate and then move quickly to another dish, as used to do during the aperitif. In general, they go well with flavors with distinctly salty, but also brackish notes.
Glamour and international cocktails everywhere you want: with NIO you need only a click.
If your apertivo instead has the most varied dishes for taste and origin, it can be cool to add internationality to the tasting of your cocktails. Here we serve you at your choice, directly on the sofa of your home, a perfect Cosmopolitan, an intriguing Garden Of Russia or the exclusive Gin Proved.
Very few cocktails are immediately recognizable as the Cosmopolitan. Simple and iconic, this sour/sweet recipe became popular at the end of the 90s after the successful television series, Sex and the City, brought it to the attention of all. Even today the Cosmopolitan is extremely popular and its typical pink color makes it also the most photographed cocktail. The perfect gift for friends with a fashionable Instagram feed!
The Cosmopolitan is perfect to match with dishes characterized by sweet/bitter contrast, just like this cocktail. We could then think of finger food made of cheese and pear or a delicious cheese platter combined with fruit preserves.
Another interesting choice for the home aperitif with a touch of innovation is the Garden of Russia cocktail. An exclusive reinterpretation of the classic Vodka Sour s by Patrick Pistolesi, who added to the classic one the Elderberry Liquor Bols. This last ingredient transforms this cocktail into an exclusive NIO Cocktails, a fresh, fragrant and fruity tasting experience.
Perfect with an appetizer to lighten with a bit of freshness, such as fried, for example, ascolana olives or dried fruit, rich in fat.
With this cocktail you will exalt the palate but also the curiosity of your guests: it’s Gin Proved. Another exclusive recipe by Patrick Pistolesi. A classic and fresh Gin Sour, enriched by Parfait Amour, a violet liqueur and a scent of rose petals and almonds. A cocktail for real connoisseurs who will appreciate the delicate balance of the ingredients: Tanqueray Gin, Liquor Bols Parfait Amour, Citric Acid and Liquid Sugar.
Amaze your guests with the fascinating story of the Parfait Amour: created by Lucas Bols to donate a fragrant and unique elixir to ladies of high lineage, finding the most expensive spices in the world such as Madagascar vanilla and almonds and then perfume it with rose petals and violet; in that time we can talk about a real alchemist’s work and the result is a fresh liquor, Exotic and fragrant, whose floral tones intoxicate us at every sip.
A tasting moment so precious is certainly combined with equally refined dishes: we propose the king of the tables during Christmas holidays, smoked salmon, or a shrimp cocktail as in general all seafood.
Add Gin Proved cocktail to your Box.
Home Etiquette Aperitif 4.0!
As you can see with NIO Cocktails you are spoiled for choice to organize your party aperitif, or to give a friend a really special and exclusive gift. The Christmas atmosphere you know will never be the same again and your table will be enriched by the premium quality that only NIO Cocktails can give!
give! Build your Box with your favourite aperitif cocktails.