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Rolls Royce

Name: Rolls Royce
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Dry vermouth; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 4 drop Boker's style bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
4 drop	Difford's Bokers Bitters By Bob's Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Alto Coupe 18cl

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Rolls Royce contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.36% alc./vol. (46.71° proof)
22.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book. This recipe is repeated in R. de Fleury's 1934 book 1700 Cocktails For The Man Behind The Bar.

In 2023, I made this classic using sage-forward Engine Gin and this led me to garnish the cocktail with a fresh sage leaf. I used Engine Gin as it seemed appropriate due to the cocktail's name, but the hint of sage and aroma from the fresh leaf suits this cocktail.

ROLLS ROYCE COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Bénédictine.
¼ French Vermouth.
¼ Italian Vermouth.
½ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Review

A variation on the earlier R.A.C. Cocktail. Lovingly hand-crafted and highly polished with enough oomph to be a contender in the spirit-forward classics series.

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Tavor Lahat 27w

The lemon peel kills it. Try to avoid.

Marie-Therese Straus 1y

Lovely. The Boker's bitters really dries this out and gives it a complex edge. This is one I'll definitely be making again.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

The main difference between this and most of the variants (many of which I also love) is the sweet vermouth. So if you like your cocktails perfect, step right in, otherwise move along. BTW I don't have Bokers so tried Jerry Thomas' and orange bitters. Preferred the latter though I note the original recipe had none so I suppose it's dealers choice.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

This is much more subtle and elegant than we expected. For us, it's the dry vermouth that is the gently beating heart here. So choose wisely...we went with Antica Torino Vermouth di Torino...perhaps not as austerely dry as some others.

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