Name: French 1605
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 ml Chartreuse Green; 10 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 1 dash Élixir Végétal; 90 ml Brut sparkling wine

Ingredients

1/3 fl oz

Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

1/3 fl oz

Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

1 dash

Chartreuse Élixir Végétal

3 fl oz

Brut champagne/sparkling wine

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of tip of a mint sprig.

Method

SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

TOP with sparkling wine.

Garnish

Garnish with the tip of mint sprig floated on cocktail.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of French 1605 contains 156 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
11.52% alc./vol. (23.05° proof)
16.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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George Jetson 15w

Happy Chartreuse Day! Heres how I celebrated:

1⁄2 fl oz Green Chartreuse

1⁄2 fl oz Yellow Chartreuse

1⁄2 fl oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1⁄4 fl oz Classic Gum Syrup

3 dash Chartreuse Élixir Végétal

3 fl oz Brut champagne/sparkling wine

A light-ish cocktail with a lot of herbal/sour/sweet richness going on with fizzy lifting drinks keeping it frosty. My variant is a little more potent than the OG.

Alexandre Lockfeld 1y

I also added additional Chartreuse, more yellow than green as I have more yellow, but was fresh out of Chartreuse Élixir Végétal, )actually had never heard of it.) I tried substituting with a few drops each of Fernet Branca and Galliano L’Autentico and it was very, very, good. No idea how it might differ from the given recipe.

Avery Garnett 1y

It's very good - how can chartreuse drinks be bad? but there isn't much going on outside of that. I upped it to 15ml of each chartreuse and it's a vast improvement but the chartreuse is doing basically all of the heavy lifting of the 4.5/5.

Alexandre Lockfeld 2y

Made this with substitutions: used almost the last of my precious bottle of green Chartreuse, tried Galliano to match the color of yellow Chartreuse if not the flavor profile and a dash of Peychaud’s bitters. And goosed it up with 3/4 oz of vodka to get to the same detonation as a French 75. It was delicious!