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 (2:1); 10 ml Egg white (pasteurised); 60 ml Brut sparkling wine

Evening Sun
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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
²⁄₃ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
¹⁄₃ oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
¹⁄₆ oz	Rose petal liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
¹⁄₃ oz	Egg white (pasteurised) or 3 dashes Fee Brothers Fee Foam cocktail foamer or Aquafaba (chickpea water) or Egg white replacement (vegan)
2 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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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.

How to make:

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.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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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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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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Nutrition:

One serving of Evening Sun contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

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

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Cassandra Adams

6th October at 19:33

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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