Name: Day Bell
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Bourbon whiskey; 15 ml Red bitter liqueur; 7.5 ml Ramazzotti amaro; 7.5 ml Grand Marnier; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1; 30 ml Brut sparkling wine

Day Bell
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Bourbon whiskey
¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
¹⁄₄ oz	Amaro (e.g. Ramazzotti)
¹⁄₄ oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
1 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine chilled

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR first 5 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Deliciously bittersweet with zesty orange and enlivened by sparkling wine. If you like Negronis then you should try this aperitivo.

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Variant:

Boulevardier; Rye Boulevardier; Midnight Stroll

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2010 by Joaquín Símo at Death & Company in New York City, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Day Bell contains 205 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
24.62% alc./vol. (24.62° proof)
25.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Jong cHui Lee

21st June at 16:35

Used Fourroses sb and kirkland brut.
To me it is quiet enjoyable as is.
But personally it is a cocktail one would make to use up all the champagne and not something to open the bottle for.

Avery Garnett

28th October 2023 at 21:05

Something does not go well here and I don't know what. It reads like a lightly sparkling boulevardier but something about it makes it unfortunately quite undrinkable.

Simon Sedgley

2nd August 2024 at 15:44

We think the problem here is that the balance between bitter (red bitter liqueur and Amaro) and sweet (Grand Marnier) is way out of whack. We tried two alternatives: one simply adding 15ml Carpano Antica (as a nod to Avery's Boulevardier); the other adding 15ml Aperol (I suspect that there is an unwritten bartenders' law that Aperol and Campari shall never mix in the one cocktail, but never mind). To retain the fun, we upped the bubbly to 45ml. A generous coupe glass will be needed. We think these versions, although perhaps a bit more fussy, are much better balanced, but possibly completely different drinks. We like the brooding nature of the Carpano version. Anyway, they restore the Negroni proportions of 1 base spirit to 1/2 bitter and 1/2 sweet.