Name: Death and Taxes
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Scotch whisky; 30 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Vermouth amaro (Pun.); 7.5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 2 dash Orange bitters

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Blended Scotch whisky

1 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Punt E Mes vermouth amaro

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur

2 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Death & Taxes contains 189 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
27.05% alc./vol. (54.1° proof)
24.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Vermouth amaro - robust & full (e.g. Punt E Mes) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

This is a deep cocktail. More often than not, however, we substitute Reposado Tequila or Mezcal for the Scotch. Either way, when offering it to guests, we call it a 'Death in Texas'.

Mike Premium Member 1y

Excellent! Monkey Shoulder and Beefeater 47 are well balanced against the Punt e Mes, while the Benedictine brings a touch of honeyed sweetness. Very nice.

CL Potts 24w

Beefeater 47? Do you mean Beefeater 24?

Mike Premium Member 24w

Sorry, I was a bit obtuse. I was referring to the ABV. Here in the USA, Beefeater was available at 47% ABV for a longer period than the rest of the world. Sadly, it is now down to 40%.

Bruce Ramsay 3y

I don't know what the positive reviewers are hard at work tasting. I was hoping for some surprising alchemy here. Death & Taxes did not surprise or deliver. Next time, I'll try it with more gin and less scotch.

Richard Christmas 38w

This really does seem to depend an awful lot on your choice of ingredients. This evening's offering (Tanqueray and Grouse) was a little disappointing, but with the Wine Society's 50% gin and Johnny Walker's Black label it works really well.

John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

This was excellent. Perfect for an aperitif. Used Dewar's 12 and St. George (California) dry rye gin (90 proof). Everything works perfectly together to produce a flvourful and spirited cocktail.

Joe Cornwall 3y

I made this yesterday. I wanted a bit more "pop" so I used cask strength Aberlour single malt and London Dry Beefeater as the split base. Absolutely fabulous cocktail! Right up there with my another scotch favorite, the Drunk Uncle.

I'll certainly try this again using the Dewar's 12 (the new expression is marvelous) and Monkey 47 as suggested. I think this cocktail has a real promise to be "dialed in" by the use of different whisky and gin profiles.

Bravo!

Richard Christmas 3y

When I looked at the ingredients, I had some misgivings, but this is absolutely delicious - so much more than the sum of its parts. Now I can view both death and taxes in a much more positive light!