Puccini

4 cl Tangerine juice, freshly squeezed
10 cl Champagne

Mixing Technique: Build
Glass: Champagne flute
Decoration: None
Method: Pour in the pre-chilled tangerine juice and top up with ice cold champagne.

2018-09-28T09:40:50+01:00By Renato Hausammann|Categories: Signature Cocktails, Sparkling Cocktails, Tribute Cocktails|

Historical Perspective

Renato Hausammann qualified for the second place at the National Cocktail Competition, on October 6, 1959, in St. Vincent, Italy. His winning cocktail creation, Colonello, was a solid mixture of three parts Eristoff Vodka to one part Tio Pepe sherry. Other liquid libations that sprung from his creative mind were Dolce Vita (vodka, Cointreau & grapefruit juice, as in a 3-2-1 formula) and Emanuela (equal parts of vodka, dry vermouth & peach juice). Renato Hausammann is nowadays renowned as the creator of Puccini, a sublime concoction that has gained worldwide acclaim from bartenders and cocktail connoisseurs, although it s exact origins are unknown. Named after the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, pictured right (Puccini has been known for being the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi), it is a delicious mixture of sparkling white wine and fresh tangerine juice. The Puccini would eventually bring Renato Hausammann his well-deserved immortality.

Renato Hausammann

Bartender

Cortina d'Ampezzo

Italy

Renato Hausammann was the founder of the Venice section of AIBES, after having been one of the leading AIBES men in Italy. He devoted many years of his experience behind bars to AIBES, in which he forged and taught barman’s skills to many Italian barmen. For over 44 years Hausammann stood behind the bars of prestigious establishments. As a head barman he mixed up cocktails for a large number of leading celebrities of the artistic and cultural world, as well as many famous people from the political scenery. When in 1935, Giuseppe Cipriani, celebrated owner of Harry’s Bar in Venice, advertised for a barman, Renato Hausammann, then aged 13, was the only applicant who confessed knowing absolutely nothing about the business. He then was promptly hired. Hausammann would remain Cipriani’s second-in-command from 1935 until 1952. After operating at the Harry’s Bar in Venice for almost twenty years, then Hausammann moved up. He already had previously worked at the Hotel Suvrette House di St. Moritz, in 1937, at the Hotel Cristallino di Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Capri Cesare Augusto (1951) and then tended bar for twenty years at the Hotel della Posta di Cortina from 1948 till 1968, in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Being a gallery-owner as well as of 1961, when he opened Galleria d’Arte Hausammann, also in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Renato Hausammann would remain a well-known character in the colourful domain of art and artists. The exclusive and stylish gallery, run nowadays by Renato’s daughter, Beatrice Hausammann, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011.