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Video: What Italians drank yesterday, what they drink today, what they will drink tomorrow
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
The Dr Martens are back. Heroin is back. Only the reactions of these teenagers in front of the Nirvana videos ("Oh no, is that Jesus?") Convince me that we are not yet in the 90s. But perhaps after all, as the fanatical serial killer of the cult series True Detective explained to us, time is a flat circle. Of course, the conception of linear time offers some comforts. For example, it allows for the founding of the great monotheistic religions.
But above all it allows you to say which drinks were fashionable yesterday, which today, which tomorrow. I also included soft drinks, we are still in Lent.
To predict the near future, a trip to Delorean in any club in Milan with trendsetting ambitions was enough.
WATER
First there was bottled water, what happens. Then there was the wave (seen what I did here?! Wink) of the water charts, with even dedicated sommeliers.
Today the future seems to have been drawn: the trendy places all have tap water in jugs, called with almost poetic enthusiasm "the mayor's water".
COFFEE'
There was a time, a simple era, when we drank espresso at the bar and mocha coffee at home. Now at home the wafers have already taken / the place of the coffee pot (to be sung with the painful tone of Adriano Celentano in Il Tempo Se Ne Va). I am an easy prophet when I announce that the future is filtered coffee, with highly sought-after blends, ready in a longer time than risotto.
I saw him in Milan in the irresistible Taglio and in Copenhagen almost everywhere, in short, in places where men have a long beard. I don't have to explain to you why the two are closely related.
DRINKS
In the beginning they were tamarind and barley. Then, Coca-Cola or nothing. Now gazzosa and chinotto are popular. Let's wait for the gourmet version of the bitter, that is the Crodino-type drink (okay, I threw this there. But I believe it a little).
BEER
Before they drank IPAs, bitter and hoppy, a typically American taste. Now Le Lambic, sour beers with spontaneous fermentation typical of Belgium, are the most popular. The future belongs to I lambic, when everyone will learn that the article is for men. Arrive prepared: the first time you will make the faces of the children who try lemon (essential link).
WINE
First we liked the vinoni. Lots of body, lots of alcohol, lots of wood, lots of aromas: super Tuscan, Friulian and South Tyrolean whites. Now we prefer them more subtle, elegant: it will be the fault of global warming, but these days fans love the various declinations of Nebbiolo, Champagne, in particular the less pimp because not dosed, the German Riesling, Etna. Ah, and that they are natural.
Tomorrow belongs to (I confess I took advantage of Fabio Cagnetti's advice here, in my opinion if you buy vineyard plots you still make good investments): some Beaujolais (Morgon, Fleury, Brouilly), Jura, Loira (especially Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis), Silvaner from Franconia, English bubbles, Rossese di Dolceacqua, Cirò. Ah, and natural will no longer be enough for anyone: the new enemy is added sulphites.
COCKTAIL
For a few seasons we all danced to the rhythm of spherical and molecular cocktails. Now is the time for speakeasy cocktails, in the clandestine bar style of the Prohibition era: for the bartender Jerry Thomas, a posthumous success to make Van Gogh gnaw. The future is of sparkling cocktails, in which CO2 is inserted at the moment.
But let's start from bases. Some cocktails, I say.
It was a great love with vodka and remains perfect in the late morning: the official brunch cocktail is the Bloody Mary, the Holy Protector of the Hangover. But this is a moment of overwhelming power for gin and for its favorite son, gin and tonic: once a disco cocktail, now modular in at least 900 variations by combining 30 gins and 30 artisanal tonics. The wise men (myself included) drink Martini Cocktail instead: gin-based, of course. Tomorrow belongs to high quality tequila and mezcal: POWER TO THE AGAVE.
SPIRITS
The Valtellina liqueur Braulio was an early hipster. But now fans only want Chartreuse, bitter like regret, and Americano Cocchi, which is now even found in Shanghai's cocktail bars. The day of the micro-productions of amari will come, homemade with different recipes from each place.
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