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Copenhagen Cocktail 1939

Nightcap/sipping

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Ingredients

3/4 oz Gin
3/4 oz Cherry brandy
3/4 oz Rosso/sweet vermouth
1/4 oz Lemon juice
2 dash Aromatic bitters

How to make

Serve in a nick & nora glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with skewered cherry.

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Flavour profile

18.0% alc./vol. · 1 standard drink · 164 calories

History

Deep cherry flavour, fortified with gin, given herbal depth by vermouth and aromatic bitters.

This recipe is adapted from Axel Sørensen's black, bar notebook "Lommebogen" ISBN 978-87-995886-0-2. Axel Sørensen was a bartender at Copenhagen's Café de la Reine in the late 1930s. His granddaughter inherited his pocketbook, which contained his cocktail recipes and other notes. Henrik Steen Petersen of the former "Moltkes Bar" in Copenhagen borrowed this notebook, photographed it, and has since published it for public access. Copenhagen Cocktail 1/3 Gin, 1/3 Cherry Brandy, 1/3 ital. vermouth, 5 dashes 'sour-sweet', 1 dash Angostura.

Created by Axel Sørensen