Garibaldi cocktail
Highball · Brunch · Autumn

Garibaldi

Campari and a lot of fresh orange juice over ice. Bitter and juicy, and it looks like a sunrise.

Base
Campari
Glass
Highball glass
Method
Build
Strength
5.29% ABV

Ingredients

  • 45 mlBitter Campari1 swap
    Any red bitter aperitivomedium

    Bitterness/sweetness varies

  • 120 mlFreshly Squeezed Orange Juice

How to make

Technique
Build · 10–15s

Building straight in the glass keeps it simple and preserves any fizz.

  1. Build all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice.

Serve

Glass
Highball glassAlso fine: Collins glass, Tall tumbler
Garnish
Garnish with an orange wedge.On the rim, not in — the juice would flatten the bitterness.

Taste & nutrition

5.29%ABV
169kcal
0.77Drinks
StrengthLight
Sweet to dryBalanced

Estimated from ingredient amounts and assumed ABVs — not a lab measurement.

Good to know

  • Use freshly squeezed juice — bottled tastes flat.

History

Year20th century
PlaceItaly
Created byUnknown

Just Campari and orange juice, the Garibaldi is named for the general who helped unify Italy — the bitter Italian liqueur "married" to sunny Sicilian oranges. Long overlooked as a simple two-ingredient pour, it was famously reinvented at New York's Dante with fluffy, hard-shaken "fluffy" orange juice. That texture turned a humble drink into a showpiece. It captures the whole idea of Italian apéritivo in a glass.

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