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Queen Elizabeth Wine

Name: Queen Elizabeth Wine
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Dry vermouth; 30 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 15 ml Lime juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (49)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Queen Elizabeth Wine contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
16.42% alc./vol. (32.84° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Cocktail historian, David Wondrich, discovered this cocktail in an advertisement form Bénédictine liqueur published in the February 1935 edition of Esquire Magazine that reads "Here is the prize-winning recipe in a recent nation-wide cocktail contest."

The Queen Elizabeth was the winning cocktail in US cocktail competition organised by the liqueur brand. It was created the preceding year by Herbert L. Quick, then the head bartender at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia. Herbert named his cocktail, not after any monarch, but after his wife, Elizabeth.

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

QUEEN ELIZABETH WINE
Cocktail Glass
Stir
1-1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz Benedictine
1/2 oz lemon (or lime) juice
Stanley M. Jones, 1977

Review

Zest lime and dry vermouth balance the rich herbal and saffron notes of Bénédictine liqueur.

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Comments & Discussion

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Graeme McPherson 2y

Really handy and refreshing cocktail to help finish off those half full bottles of Dry Vermouth and Benectine left in the house.

Yossi Burg 2y

Interesting- as Tony says lime juice goes well with Benedictine- used Dolin for the vermouth. Once I open a bottle of dry vermouth to make a friend a dry martini I need to find recipes to use up the leftover 685mls! This didn't disappoint.

Tony Jones 3y

With a bottle of Benedictine brought back from our trip to its excellent distillery, this was the first cocktail I tried, and it's a winner.
Lime juice goes well with Benedictine (it's the Welcome.Drink at the wildly rococo distillery) and Noilly Prat gave an extra dimension.
A refreshing lower alcohol summer drink.

Olga María Gómez Henderson 3y

It tastes very good. I think it works as an aperitif too.

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