For readers who want to shake this one up themselves, I've already done the homework: here's the full list of ingredients, bottle by bottle. Now, the story behind the glass.
The Fernandito, better known as "Fernet con Coca," is the national cocktail of Argentina, more precisely of the city of Córdoba, where it is a religion. Although Fernet-Branca is Italian (born in Milan in 1845), Argentina has consumed more than 70% of global production for decades. The combination with Coca-Cola was born spontaneously in the bars of Córdoba in the 1980s, probably out of student rebellion.
The drink is served in a specific way, "cortado con hielo," in a tall glass, and is the standard cocktail of all Cordoban barbecues ("asados"), of all student parties, and of all football nights. The IBA has recently recognized it as an official classic of the new millennium. A cocktail born from Italian bitter meeting American soda on Argentine soil: a perfect globalization of taste.
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