Campari & White Wine Cocktail: Bicicletta

"Bicicletta" is Italian for "bicycle." Why this drink is called a "bicicletta" is unknown to me, although there is an apparent connection by the drink using 2 slices of orange to represent wheels. Campari is an herbal and fruit drink invented in Italy in the mid 1800s. It is red in color and bitter in taste. The "Bicicletta" is best served in a large cocktail or wine glass, but I don't have such glasses, so I improvised and used the best glass I have on hand. Just to clarify, this is not a small drink, but you could certainly adjust the ingredient amounts to fit a somewhat smaller glass. As for the wine, Pinot Grigio is easily available, and Frascati is also good and available in many stores and wine shops, but you can use any dry white wine you like.

While I knew of this cocktail beforehand, I used the recipe from: https://www.liquor.com

Ingredients (per drink):

3 ounces dry white wine (Pinot Grigio or Frascati are good)
2 ounces Campari
club soda to fill
orange slices for garnish
ice

In a large glass, add the white wine and the Campari, stir lightly. Add the orange slices and a little ice, then add club soda to fill.

I put a few ice cubes on the other side of the orange slices for the sake of the photos

WORD HISTORY:
Kite-The origin of this word is thought to come from the shrill and screeching sound made by some birds, and as such, it is hard to separate this word out from the various imitative sound words in other languages and dialects, not only in the other Germanic languages, but in other Indo European languages as well. The imitative sounds then were sometimes used to form the names of various birds associated with a particular sound. Old English had "cyta," the name for middle sized birds of prey, especially the Red Kite. This then became "kyte" and then "kite." Sometimes the word has been used for people who prey on others. By the 1600s, the word came to be used for "a device of cloth (later, often paper) over a lightweight wooden frame used for flying as a form of play and entertainment." This naturally came from this device's hovering and gliding in the air like a bird. Verbal use of the word developed from the noun from the idea of "something rising or soaring into the sky," or figuratively, like "rising prices" or "rising values on some object or property." Also by circa 1800, "fly a kite" was used to mean "a draft or check on a bank account that has insufficient funds to cover the amount at that time." "Go fly a kite" is an expression (from the 1840s?) meaning "to bluntly tell someone to leave you alone" (example: "The sophomore high school boy asked the popular senior girl to go to a movie, and she told him to 'go fly a kite.' " "Kite" has a relative in German "Kauz" (once spelled "kuze" and "kutz," and spelled "Chutz" in some Swiss German dialects), meaning "owl" (perhaps originally "screech owl," and German also has the synonym "Eule," the close relative of English "owl"); Low German had "kutz," but in modern times Low German relies upon the word "Uul," another relative of "owl."