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Czarina

Name: Czarina
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Vodka; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 22.5 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Boker's style bitters

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
3/4 fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
2 dash	Difford's Bokers Bitters By Bob's Bitters

How to make

Glass

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Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist (expressed & discarded) & dried apricot half on rim.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Czarina contains 175 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
21.48% alc./vol. (42.96° proof)
21.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

The Czarina cocktail is first mentioned in the "supplementary list" of cocktails in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book. Sadly, as he says in the book, "space forbids giving the recipes," so all we know is that a cocktail of that name was being made in 1937.

A recipe for the Czarina first appears in the 1943 book Cocktail Digest by Oscar Haimo of the Hotel Pierre in New York City, and then in Lucius Beebe's 1946 The Stork Club Bar Book.

CZARINA COCKTAIL
1 oz. Vodka
¾ oz. Apricot Brandy
½ oz. French Vermouth
½ oz. Italian Vermouth
Shake.
Oscar Haimo, Cocktail-Digest, 1943

Czarina:
1 oz. Vodka
¾ oz. apricot brandy
½ oz. French vermouth
½ oz. Italian vermouth
Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.
Lucius Beebe, 1946

Review

Vodka-laced apricot with vermouth contributing herbal complexity.

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Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$29.99 $0.91 per cocktail

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

Redolent of old world sophistication and seductive charm. Like opening grandmama’s trinket chest to find it concealing a faberge jewel. I initially misread and shook, but the stir permits the full gamut of sweet, fruity, herbal and bitter ingredients to the palate. Had to improvise garnish, so moistened the rim with a lemon wedge, which was not unbecoming. Recommended, particularly on occasions of fin de siècle ennui 😉

John CARR Premium Member 1y

I note both the historical recipes cited stipulate to shake. I would agree with them.

Carlo Carnevale 2y

A previous recipe can be found in "Cocktail Digest" by Oscar Haimo, 1943.

Thank you for your version, delicious!

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 3y

First attempt as per recipe was a little insipid. Second attempt with equal parts of vermouths was better but still unengaging.

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