Name: Amber Room
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Chartreuse Green; 15 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Orange bitters

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

1/2 fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

2 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Amber Room contains 175 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
30.57% alc./vol. (61.15° proof)
23.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

This vintage cocktail originated from a layered or 'pousse-café' style drink called a Bijou. The original drink was so named after the French word meaning 'jewel' due to its trio of ingredients being coloured after the three most precious jewels: diamond (gin), ruby (sweet vermouth) and emerald (Green Chartreuse). Stir rather than layer and the colours combine to make this an aptly named amber coloured drink.

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Comments & Discussion

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Calvin Grant Premium Member 39w

Initially the Chartreuse amplified what I thought was a gin bite,...then it all got rich in the middle, and by the time i was buzzed (I made it a third bigger), the Chartreuse and vermouth formed some sort of equally assertive alliance accented by the ice-melt... Marvelous.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

Nice to see this old friend in the limelight. There's something about Chartreuse that demands contemplation; maybe it's the monks' devotion coming through.

Justin Aniello 1y

Nice, though a little gin heavy. I prefer the Bijou which gets more of the chartreuse botanicals to the front.

Simon Schmalbein 1y

Gin upfront, sweetened by Vermouth. The Chartreuse in the back could be upped a tiny bit. Orange bitters are lost, at least I cant taste them. I prefer Tanqueray TEN as my Gin in this one.

John CARR Premium Member 2y

Surprisingly heavy on the chartreuse, would be tempted to up the vermouth a whisker. Otherwise a potent, rich, highly flavoured and sumptuous cocktail. Classic no nonsense flavour-forward drinking.

Chris Lamb Premium Member 2y

Was watching "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" again last night and various parts of the internet seems to claim that the cocktail that McCabe drinks (double whisky and a raw egg) is called an Amber Moon. Can you help clarify? Perhaps if it is known under a different name here then a clarification can be added? :)