Garibaldi
Bitter and orange, Italy united.
Campari and fresh orange juice over ice: the Campari-orange of Italian aperitivo. With just-squeezed juice, even better when blended until frothy, the bitterness of Campari melts into the sweetness of the citrus.
- IBA · Contemporary Classics
- Aperitif
- Built
- Glass
- Highball glass
- Method
- Built
- Strength
- Light
- Time
- 2 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Ice
- Cubes
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
-
Campari
45 ml
-
Orange juice
120 ml
Garnish
- Orange wedge
Proportions
How to make
- Fill a highball glass with ice.
- Pour the Campari.
- Top with freshly squeezed orange juice.
- stir gently.
- Garnish with an orange wedge.
The story
Origins
ProbableA plausible account, without definitive proof.
The Garibaldi is named after Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, and a popular reading sees its two ingredients as a symbol: Milanese Campari evokes the North and the Redshirts, Sicilian oranges the South, where Garibaldi's Thousand landed in 1860. This is a symbolic interpretation rather than a documented origin, and neither the place nor the author of the first recipe is known. In Italy the drink is simply called Campari-orange, and it became popular around the 1960s. The IBA listed it in the 1980s, later dropped it and reinstated it in 2024 among the Contemporary Classics. Bartender Naren Young revived it at Dante in New York in 2015, using blended, frothy orange juice.
Sources (4)
- Wikipedia — Garibaldi (cocktail) (opens in a new tab) recipe and history
- Difford's Guide — Garibaldi (opens in a new tab) recipe and history
- PUNCH — The Big, Fluffy Citrus Cloud (opens in a new tab) recipe and history
- Wikipedia — List of IBA official cocktails (opens in a new tab) recipe
Taste profile
- Citrus
- 4 out of 5
- Bitter
- 3 out of 5
- Fruity
- 3 out of 5
- Sweet
- 2 out of 5