Name: Rose (French style) No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 15 ml Kirschwasser; 15 ml Cherry brandy

Rose (French style) No. 2
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
¹⁄₂ oz	Heering Cherry Liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

I've reduced the proportions of this cocktail by one-third as I believe, where such richly flavoured spirituous cocktails are concerned, less is more.

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Variant:

Rose (English) - gin, apricot brandy, dry vermouth, lemon juice, and grenadine.
Rose (by Johnny Milta) - dry vermouth, kirschwasser, and groseille syrup.
Rose (by Albert of the Chatham Bar) - dry vermouth, kirschwasser, cherry brandy, and groseille syrup.
Rose No. 3 - dry vermouth, kirschwasser, and groseille syrup.

History:

Adapted from a recipe by Jason E. Clapham at the St. Edward's MCR at Oxford, in turn, an adaption of a recipe in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's 1930 Swallows : World's Drinks And How To Mix Them.

ROSE
Gin . . . . . . . . ½ jigger
Kirschwasser . . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Cherry Brandy . . . . . . . . ¼ jigger
Stir well with ice, strain into chilled cocktail glass, add Maraschino cherry, twist lemon peel over and serve.
William Boothby, 1934

ROSE COCKTAIL. (FRENCH STYLE No. 2)
¼ Cherry Brandy.
¼ Kirsch.
½ Dry Gin.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

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Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
29.41% alc./vol. (29.41° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Matt

27th May at 04:32

Elegant - an attractive pale rose gold color that is perfectly clear - this is not a cherry flavored confection. This is an excellent gin cocktail, like a distant cousin of a Martinez, the gin dominates the early taste and the mouthfeel, and then you are given a sweet kiss at the finish - wonderful! I recommend Luxardo Cherry liqueur (not Maraschino!) instead of Heering (I like it better), that may also need why my cocktail turned out so much more attractive than the dark amber of the pictured cocktail.

Evan Miller

7th June 2023 at 02:12

This is obviously personal preference, but this was definitely too booze forward for me. While I could happily accept it and sip on it, making it myself requires a touch more sweetness. It didn’t even taste much like cherry to me. I added some Reál Black Cherry Purée, tasted it then added some simple syrup. About a bar soon of each (in a doubled recipe) After the simple addition the cherry flavor really came out and the sweetness level brought it into the realm of enjoyable for me.

John Hinojos

29th October 2022 at 03:39

What an outstanding evening sipper. Wonderful herbal hints with the taste of cherries. Felt that it had an aftertaste of cocoa. Delightful.
Appreciate the recipe adjustment, but we made a triple between the two of us. Fit perfectly into a coupe glass. In my favourites.