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

Queen Elizabeth Wine
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Serve in a Coupe glass

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

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How to make:

Select a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Express lime zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

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

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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

Nutrition:

One serving of Queen Elizabeth Wine contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

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

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Graeme McPherson

21st July 2024 at 07:06

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

Yossi Burg

13th October 2023 at 08:45

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

20th August 2023 at 06:40

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.