Name: Depth Charge (Savoy recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 37.5 ml Aromatized wine; 15 ml Blanc quinquina/kina; 2 dash Absinthe

Depth Charge (Savoy recipe)
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₂ oz	Blanc quinquina/kina (e.g. Mattei Cap Corse, Bonal or Kina L'Aér
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Wet Martini-like with pronounced quinine. A hot weather Martini, perhaps.

I tried the Depth Charge with various proportions of Lillet Blanc and Kina L'Aéro d'Or, starting with equal parts which was too dry, before arriving at the recipe above.

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Variant:

Depth Charge

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

DEPTH CHARGE COCKTAIL
2 Dashes Absinthe.
½ Glass Kina Lillet.
½ Glass Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Squeeze orange peel on top.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

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Nutrition:

One serving of Depth Charge (Savoy recipe) contains 177 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.65% alc./vol. (22.65° proof)
22.2 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

30th May at 15:33

Might be my favourite application for Kina L’aero d’or so far (twentieth century was also brilliant!). Full of vintage flavour and richness. Wonderfully herbal, fruity and vinous - finished off a bottle of Sipsmith 30ml and 15ml Tanq 10 combined to display some virtuoso gin aromatics. This is roughly my ideal blend of Lillet to L’aero - I find 1:1 overpowers the wonderful sauv Blanc in Lillet so 3:2 or 2:1 much better.
If you like Versprrs and Corpse reviver no.2 definitely try this.

G. M. Genovese

10th November 2024 at 18:37

Lillet Blanc and Cocchi Americano made for a unique drink. And I really enjoyed it. But, knowing how Kina LD tastes, boy, do I wanna try that soon... Not sure a lemon peel was best (orange or grapefruit sounds better), but it did enhance the hairiness of the non-gin ingredients.