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Rosina

Name: Rosina
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 30 ml Gin; 15 ml Mezcal; 1 dash Plum bitters

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
1 dash	Fee Brothers Plum bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Coupe Glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.36% alc./vol. (46.73° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2022 by J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails, who says, "This is a smokey revival of that Edwardian rarity, now far more widely known, the Zaza. (Named after Rosina Storchio, the lead in the premiere of the opera of Zazà.)

More cocktails by J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails

Review

Fruity yet dry, almost earthy, with (depending on your mezcal) a delicate smokiness.

Byrrh Grand Quinquina 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$52.99 $3.21 per cocktail Byrrh Grand Quinquina image

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$33.99 $1.36 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$42.99 $0.86 per cocktail

Fee Brothers Plum Bitters 150ml - makes 480 cocktails
$10.49 $0.02 per cocktail Fee Brothers Plum Bitters image

$5.45 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Jack Smith Premium Member 2y

I found it way too dry (this might be since I am in the US and so I am using Heaven Hill's American Dubonnet and not the real French kind, though HH's version has worked well for me in many other cocktails). To sweeten, I used 10 mL of a supermarket agave and caramel coffee sweetener, which fit well with the chocolatey notes from the US Dubonnet and the mezcal. Probably regular agave would have worked too.

George Ireland 3y

A fantastic gateway drink, if you have a friend who isn't yet hooked on Mezcal.

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