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Automobile

Name: Automobile
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Sage gin; 30 ml Scotch whisky; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters; 1 dash Absinthe

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Sage gin
1 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
1 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Automobile contains 184 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
25.28% alc./vol. (50.57° proof)
23 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The makers of Engine Gin discovered the Automobile Cocktail in Frank Meier's 1934 book, The Artistry of Mixing Drinks.
They make Meier's with an absinthe-like Ibiza liquor, saying, "An Automobile Cocktail, a glass of gasoline with a nut in it". So wrote the quirky promotional postcard of Automobile Cocktail, a close relative of Rob Roy. There are several version of it. We have taken the one contained of the Ritz in Paris. To the drink reported by Meier we have made a toe-in, rebalancing it and adding a typical Ibiza liquor which we also soaked our bolt with. At this point the car has become a convertible spider ready to take us along the coasts of Isla Bianca.

AUTOMOBILE
In mixing-glass: a dash of Orange Bitters, one-third each of Italian Vermouth, Gin & Scotch Whisky, stir well and serve.
Frank Meier, 1934

Review

Spirit-forward with gin and Scotch whisky lightly sweetened, softened and aromatised with vermouth.

Variations/similar cocktails

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John Hinojos Premium Member 3y

This was perfect as an evening sipper. Use a local San Diego gin (Old Harbor San Miguel) which is made with local herbs and heavy on sage, juniper, and some floral. Everything works perfectly. No element of the cocktail overpowers the other. Delightful.

Cocktailpixie 3y

Delicious. The sage-forward Engine gin plays very nicely with the other ingredients in this one. Thanks, Simon!

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