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Belafonte

Name: Belafonte
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Red bitter liqueur; 30 ml White port; 90 ml Tonic water

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Italian red bitter liqueur
1 fl oz	Cockburn's White Heights Port
3 fl oz	Thomas Henry Tonic Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange slice wheel.

Method

POUR all ingredients into glass.
FILL glass with ice.

Garnish

Garnish with orange slice wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Belafonte contains 150 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
8% alc./vol. (16° proof)
10.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

White port — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a cocktail created in 2014 by London bartender Cas Oh. This features in his excellent 2020 Co-Specs cocktail book, where he explains that Belafonte is the name of Steve Zizzou's boat in Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic starring Bill Murray as the eccentric oceanographer.

Review

A Portuguese apéritif (Porto Tonico) influenced by a bittersweet Italian aperitivo.

Campari Bitter 375ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$19.99 $1.60 per cocktail Campari Bitter image

Cockburn's White Heights Port 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$31.99 $1.28 per cocktail

$2.88 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 39w

In addition to the sophisticated Milanese twist, we like to add a downunder tropical note by splitting the aperitivo 20ml Campari and 10ml Davo Plum Aperitivo. Zing Zing!

Mike Gibb Premium Member 1y

I like Campari. I like the heftier Negroni-adjacents (eg Commedia all'Italiana). For the Belafonte, though, I prefer a minor tweak to the recipe to rebalance the Campari to more of a supporting role. 35ml porto blanco, 25ml campari, 100ml tonic.

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Matt Premium Member 2y

If you've been drinking Americanos or Bicicletas, you should also be drinking the Belafonte. Fruity from the white port, bitter (and great color) from the Campari - the tonic water ratio stretches the drink, diluting it more that the Americano or Bicicleta while preserving the central flavors. A great and low abv refresher!

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