Name: Blue Paradise
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Cognac (brandy); 20 ml Rouge aromatised wine; 7.5 ml Parfait amour liqueur

Blue Paradise
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
2 oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
²⁄₃ oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
¹⁄₄ oz	Giffard Parfait Amour liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon 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:

This is one of those cocktails where the bitter and aromatic oils from the lemon zest twist is crucial to the balance and overall success of the cocktail. This is a hero cocktail for parfait amour so I've upped its proportion at the expense of the aromatised wine, at least when compared to other interpretations (60ml (2oz) cognac, 30ml (1oz) Dubonnet Red, 4 dashes Parfait Amour) which also call for this classic to be shaken.

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History:

A vintage cocktail saved from obscurity thanks to its inclusion in Ted "Dr. Cocktail" Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails where he says, "It was the creation of Emil Bauwens, head barman at the Bar Saint-James in Brussels and recorded in his book, Livre de Cocktails."

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
25.95% alc./vol. (25.95° proof)
22.7 grams of pure alcohol

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