A sunny summer day, then the heat becomes less aggressive and the most pleasant moment arrives to go out, walk around the centre, meet up with friends: the perfect moment to take a break before dinner to whet your appetite.
L'aperitif: a habit that we believe to be recent, to which today we give different names depending on the fashions or even the type of service offered (happy hour, for example, when the accompaniment to the drink is more than a few appetizers), but which in reality has a very long history.
Already at the time of imperial RomeIn fact, this habit of "aperire", that is, of opening the meal with a drink based on wine and honey, was a custom, just as the doctors of ancient Greece already recommended a mix of white wine and bitter-tasting herbs ( which stimulated the sense of hunger as current bitters do today) to drink before dinner to combat loss of appetite.
A custom which, in the form closest to how we know it today, owes its origins to Turin at the end of the eighteenth century, when Antonio Benedetto Carpano invented a wine flavored with artemisia major, namely the vermouth, recognized today as a traditional Italian agri-food product, much appreciated by the then King of Italy and still a component of many of best cocktails.
Today there are many places that offer the possibility of enjoying an aperitif in the late afternoon (but also before lunch time).
A very pleasant stop that can become special if the location we choose is a quality place where the proposals are curated by expert bartenders, like the one that 'Taste at 28 offers to those who choose to enjoy their aperitif in the heart of Rome, in Piazza Augusto Imperatore 9, near via Ripetta.
A place that is always open, which in summer also offers outdoor tables, under the portico overlooking the Ara Pacis Museum, in the historic center of the capital.
Aperitifs but also after-dinner drinks, to the cocktail bar of 'Gusto at 28, where you can enjoy excellent selected wines, beers, spirits and of course a long list of cocktails, from the most classic to the non-alcoholic ones to the "house" ones, such as "Red flavour”, with vodka, cherry tomatoes, cane sugar, basil, worcester and chilli pepper, and “Gusto Rosso Royal”, in a perfect mix of Cinzano prosecco, crème de cassis and red fruits.
A special aperitif, therefore, in the center of the capital: thebest invitation to start an evening in the best way.
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