Skip to content
Sip Curator
Log in Sign up
All cocktails Metropolitan (1884)

Log in to see whether your bar can pour this

Metropolitan (1884)

After dinner/digestif · Aperitivo/aperitif · Classic/vintage

3.9 14 ratings

Favorite

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Ambrato vermouth
3/4 oz Cognac (brandy)
1/12 oz Gomme syrup
3 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 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Garnish with skewered cherry.

Made it?

How did it pour?

Rate this drink

With an account you can score a drink once you have poured it and keep a note on how you made it. Your score and your note are yours alone; share your ingredient list if you want to, and other members see how you pour it.

Flavour profile

19.5% alc./vol. · 1 standard drink · 119 calories

History

A dry vermouth-forward brandy Manhattan for pre- or after-dinner.

This recipe is adapted from O. H. Byron's 1884 publication, The Modern Bartenders' Guide. Notably, it appears in the book following two recipes for the Manhattan, which is considered the first known Manhattan recipe. Metropolitan Cocktail. (A small wine-glass.) ½ pony brandy. 1 " French vermouth. 3 dashes Angostura bitters. 3 " gum syrup.

Created by O. H. Byron