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Evening Sun

Name: Evening Sun
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Cognac (brandy); 10 ml Chartreuse Green; 5 ml Rose petal liqueur; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 10 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 60 ml Brut sparkling wine

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Ingredients
²⁄₃ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Rose petal liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dash Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer
2 fl oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of express & float coin-sized orange zest twist.
Prepare garnish of coin-sized orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE first 6 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine by pouring in the centre of the cocktail.

Garnish

Express orange zest twist over the cocktail and then use as a garnish to cover the hole in the foam left by pouring sparkling wine.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Evening Sun contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
12.91% alc./vol. (25.83° proof)
17.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Egg white (pasteurised) — Eggs
Brut champagne/sparkling wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in William Schmidt's 1892 The Flowing Bowl.

The Evening Sun
(For four.)
In a large glass,
The juice of a large lemon,
2 barspoons of powdered sugar,
fill the glass with chopped ice,
space a drink of fine brandy,
a pony of green chartreuse,
½ pony of crême de roses,
the whites of 2 eggs.
Shake this to the freezing-point.
In four glasses divide a pint of dry champagne; strain your ingredients into these four glasses very slowly, and serve.
William Schmidt, 1892

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Review

It's the dry sparkling wine that has the last word in this beautifully integrated and complex foaming sour.

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Cassandra Adams Premium Member 50w

Somehow this manages to be both mellow and zingy at once, and dangerously drinkable. The rose came across mostly in the nose for us, although it does also soften the herbal notes from the chartreuse. Overall a treat!

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