Wine Experience

A memorable cocktail with Cecchi wine

To spice up any special occasion we offer your palette a tantalizing twist of flavors that perfectly wraps up a party in your glass...with wine of course!

History of cocktails

What's your favorite cocktail of choice? A mojito? A Tom Collins? Do you know who invented the first cocktail?

Some claim that an American woman created the first ever cocktail in a tavern by mixing whiskey, gin and juice. The second theory claims that the first cocktail was invented by a barman on board a ship. Out of boredom he began pouring different drinks to his customers in cockerel jugs. The third version states that a bartender in New Orleans prepared drinks in round glasses that resembled an egg, called Coquetelle, hence the name "Cocktail."

During the U.S. Prohibition between 1919-1933, the consumption of alcohol was illegal but cocktails were still being enjoyed. Since the quality of the liquor was poor the bartenders began to mix liquor with other ingredients such as spices, soda and fruit. The first real cocktail recipes dates back to this time.

History of wine cocktails

It was common place in the early twentieth century—especially in the Italian countryside—to consume beverages made ??from a mixture of water, vinegar and sugar.

Subsequently, the water was replaced by soft drinks and the vinegar was replaced with wine. It was very typical for Southern Italians to combine sparkling liquids with wine, while the Northerners preferred to mix sparkling water with white wine.

The mixture of white wine and sparkling water was also used by the Austrians. When they arrived in Italy during WWII it is said that they were not accustomed to the high alcohol content of Italian wines, so they soon began stretching wines with water.

This practice—which sometimes included a slice of lemon—led to the birth of one of the most famous cocktails. Have you heard of a Spritz!? Then other famous cocktail, the Bellini, was soon born in Venice.