Bonjourno! Drinks Tube how you doing? Look I am here with one of the best mixologists
in the world, Giovani. Giovani, since when? I don;'t know I've just given you a change.
Sorry, Giuseppe. And we are here, it's incredible. We're in Turin by the way, and if you don't
know where that is it's in Italy. This Cafe Platti one of the traditional most antique
cafe in Turin. This one was a liqour and candy shop. So lovely people, we are going to make
a Milano Torino. Milano Torino. This drink is also a classic. It's one of the original
aperitivo isn't it? I would say it's the king of aperetivo. The king. The point of the aperetivo is to get you excited
for dinner. All selection of small canape, cocktail in the middle, and that's the way
I will get an aperitivo in Italy. It's kind of the English call it picnic. The Greeks
call it mezze, the Spanish call it Tapas. It's good for preparing your stomach and your
taste buds for a lovely dinner isn't it? Exactly. So, lets make the cocktail. We only going
to use two ingredients. One is going to be sweet vermouth from Torino. Another one is
going to be bitter liqour from Milano. I will do the Milano part, you will do the Torino
part, ok? So I do one full glass of Bitter liqueur. Thank you, there we are. So i'm putting
in one part sweet vermouth. I happen to think the orange is very very important for this
cocktail. I'm going to take a little wedge of the orange just like this. Just a little
half squeeze and then, plop. Remember, small details make a difference between a standard
drink to an awesome, fantastic cocktail. So there you go Milano Torino equal parts of
sweet vermouth and bitter liqueur, wedge of orange, ice. It taste delicious. I just love
it, it's so classy. If you want to be a happy man, drink a Milano Torino whenever you can.
So you've got an evolution of this? Absolutely. Because this was the original cocktail. Milano
Torino. But then something happened. Exactly. What happened? The Americans turned up. Right
so they came to Italy and they were asking for a Milano Torino with a splash of soda
water. To lighten it. Exactly, because obviously they don't used to this kind of a bitter,
herby taste. And now we making our Americano. I need you to pour here fifty fifty, sweet
vermouth and bitter liquour as we did before. Easy. So we're continuing the same recipe.
Exact. So we get a little bit of orange and we squeeze and we drop it in. Still a half
squeeze. Yes. What we going to do, we going to pour some ice in the second half of the
shaker. Ok. So you're going to shake this? We not going to shake, we going to throw . Throw?
Throw, exactly. Throw the liquid from one glass to another glass. Just a little warning
now, if you're making this at home maybe go outside because he's a professional. And now,
we pouring the whole liquid from the ice to the second shaker. Ooh, and then. Now look
here, you can see all these like bubbles, can see all these like bubbles and that's
what we want so you can make a little bit more lighter. And then what do you do, you
just top it up? With a splash of soda. Squeeze a little bit of orange going through the skin,
getting all the essential oil and then we drop her in. Nice. Salute, salute. So you
got the classic Milano Torino, and the Americano. You just call it Americano? Americano, yes.
Very, slightly lighter. More of a drinker, more of a sipper. I love it. I love it. And
here we are, to have a proper aperitivo you know in this case we have some tuna, which
is kind of salty with artichokes. We have some tomato, mozzarella. We got some stracchino
cheese which is creamy cheese from Piedmont region and rocket. So you can have like all
different flavours combined with your Americano cocktail. Bite of salami, grassy taste of
the salami. It actually works very well with the bitterness of the Milano Torino. If you're
in England or Australia, or Greece you just look around and find food that tickles your
taste buds. Cured things, pickled things, hot things, crunchy things, soft things, you
know with beautiful cocktails. A simple thing becomes a very beautiful thing. Absolutely.
So there you go guys that is the Milano Torino and the Americano. Two beautiful, beautiful
cocktails with the aperitivo. This is civilised. Do it at home, have a go. Until next time,
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