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Portable and refreshing, these drinks all taste better outside.
Just add sunshine: some drinks are much better in the open air. Photograph: Jutta Klee/Getty Images
Just add sunshine: some drinks are much better in the open air. Photograph: Jutta Klee/Getty Images
Sun 18 Apr 2021 01.00 EDT
Campari Soda Aperitif, Italy (from £2.45, 9.8cl, drinkmonger.com; thedrinkshop.com; delicatezza.co.uk) Do some drinks work better alfresco than others? Obviously, that rather depends on where your fresco is going to be. First there is the portability question to consider: not an issue if you’re straying no further than your own garden or balcony; rather more important if you’re heading off to the place that has become the nation’s de facto pub, gym and living room for much of the past year: the humble local park. There is, at least, a whole lot more to choose from in the backpack or handbag cocktail genre than there was even a couple of years ago, a profusion of pre-mixed cocktails and ha