The Bondi Liquor Co Classic Negroni is a ready-to-pour Australian bottled cocktail in a 700mL format, built on the bitter-sweet template the Negroni is known for. Bondi Liquor Co has kept the drink dry and bracing rather than sweetened up for easy sipping.

Pour it over ice and the aroma lifts straight away — blood orange peel, juniper and a dusty herbal edge, with rhubarb and a faint whiff of clove sitting underneath. The palate follows through with red bitters, dried orange rind and a savoury, almost medicinal thread of gentian and wormwood.

The Classic Negroni carries real weight across the middle without turning syrupy: there is a gloss of vermouth sweetness early, then a firm bitter grip that tightens through the back half. The finish is long, dry and faintly grippy, the kind that resets the appetite instead of coating it.