Name: Wow
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Calvados apple brandy; 22.5 ml Light white rum; 22.5 ml Rouge aromatised wine

Wow
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
³⁄₄ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
³⁄₄ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
³⁄₄ oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled 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:

A trio of spirits tamed by a splash of aromatised wine. Temperature of serve is key so be sure to chill your glass and ideally your ingredients well. Although not classic, I like to serve with an orange zest twist.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. The Savoy recipe calls for Hercules, a sadly long since defunct product that vintage newspaper advertisements for the brand describe as being a "Maté-Wine Apéritif" with an "alcohol strength over 25°." Hence, I've used another wine-based aperitif.

WOW COCKTAIL.
¼ Bacardi Rum.
¼ Hercules.
¼ Calvados or Apple Brandy.
¼ Brandy.
Harry Craddock, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Wow contains 171 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
26.54% alc./vol. (26.54° proof)
23.9 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

28th May 2022 at 03:18

When you taste this you will say the name of the cocktail. What an interesting mixture of flavours. The various ingredients all blend well together, with no one ingredient overwhelming the other. Great evening sipper.