Jean Harlow
Here’s another cocktail that’s named for a Hollywood starlet. It’s also a surprisingly strong cocktail, as it simply relies on equal measures of light rum and sweet vermouth, garnished with a lemon peel.
This cocktail is a great reminder that so-called girly cocktails are often much stronger than their masculine counterparts. And, in cases like these, the name of the cocktail tells you very little about what you can expect from it.
Bellini
The bellini remains an incredibly popular and well-known cocktail. It was developed in the famous Harry’s Bar in Venice, sometime around the 1930s to 1940s.
The cocktail is easy to make, as it relies on just two ingredients. You start with white peach puree at the bottom of the glass and then top it up with chilled prosecco. You could substitute for another sparkling white wine for a similar effect.
Some versions of the cocktail are a little more complicated. For example, one recipe uses peach nectar, peach schnapps, lemon juice, and dry champagne.
You also have the option of making the cocktail in a blender with crushed ice, to create a delicious summer refresher.
Despite being created in the 1930s or 1940s, the cocktail was named for Giovanni Bellini, a famous Italian painter. The name was chosen because the hue of the cocktail remaindered the cocktail creator, Giuseppe Cipriani, of the color from one of Bellini’s paintings.
