Bellini is the most classic of Long Drinks. Moderately alcoholic and fruity, fresh and light, is a fine symbol of elegance and “savoir vivre”.
To celebrate freedom after the Second World War, this drink is a creation of Giuseppe Cipriani, founder in 1931 of the famous Harry’s Bar in Venice. Over the years the Bar became the meeting place for writers, painters, artists, aristocrats, kings and queens. Among them: Katherine Hepburn, Gary Cooper, Peggy Guggenheim, Barbara Hutton, Giancarlo Menotti, Orson Welles, Frank Lloyd Wright, Truman Capote, Joe di Maggio and Ernest Hemingway…
The fame of Bellini Long Drink has gone around the world, so much that in the ‘80s it has been necessary to create the drink, with the same characteristics of the original prepared in Venice, but in a way that could be exported to major cities in Europe and overseas.
Commissioned by Cipriani, Ca’ de La Pasina prepared in 1983 the original base for the drink, and was a formidable success on a global level . Still nowadays it served anywhere in the world, in both summer and winter, in exclusive bars and clubs.
The making is simple: just pour into a cold carafe an iced bottle of dry sparkling wine or Prosecco DOC, and a jar of Bellini Original base, also cold; stir gently and pour into flutes.
Barbastel distributes Ca’ de la Pasina’s products in Poland.
