Aperol Wave
The Ingredients
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0.5 oz. Premium Gin
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0.5 oz. Aperol¹
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Sparking Wine
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Lemonade
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Orange Wedge
The Directions
Insert ice cubes in a wine glass, then add gin and Aperol. Top with sparkling wine and a splash of lemonade. Squeeze orange wedge and then deposit in glass.
The Quote
"It's late summer in OBX, about 7:00 pm. The golden hour² is nigh. It's too late for lemonade, too early for bourbon, it's Aperol Wave o'clock”
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Michael Flack
The Story
What if an Aperol Spritz and a Negroni had a love child?
This was the house drink when I spent some time in the Waves, NC in Sep 2020. Mr. Hospitality, a dear friend brought some Aperol which was the jumping-off point for this creation.
Feel free to vary the amounts of sparkling wine and lemonade to suit your tastes.
¹ Aperol is an Italian bitter apéritif made of gentian, rhubarb, and cinchona, among other ingredients. It has a vibrant orange hue. Its name comes from the French slang word for aperitif, which is apero.
² The golden hour is the period of daytime shortly after sunrise or before sunset, during which daylight is redder and softer than when the Sun is higher in the sky.
³ Cinchona bark of yields quinine and other alkaloids that were the only effective treatments against malaria during the height of European colonialism.
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