Spumoni Recipe

The spumoni looks, tastes, and drinks like a classic italian aperitivo cocktail but its actually japanese We heard about it through the charming bartender anime, where it was briefly mentioned as a drink popular with women. In fact, it began life as a canned drink from the suntory company. Though it was quickly discontinued, it lived on as a menu staple at japanese bars and izakayas. Were big fans of this version from punch magazine, who adapted it from a more complex version with peppercorn syrup served at bar pisellino in new york. To get your grapefruit juice as fluffy as bar pisellinos, you could toss it in a kitchen blender and blend on high speed to introduce some airy volume. Campari is the standard bitter citrus apritif for a spumoni, but any other red bitter would do including aperol, if you dont mind the additional sweetness.