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Marconi Wireless

Name: Marconi Wireless
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Calvados apple brandy; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Orange bitters

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Ingredients
2 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Coupe Glass

Prepare

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

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

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 Marconi Wireless contains 193 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.51% alc./vol. (47.02° proof)
22.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

Named after Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi (1874 – 1937), an Italian electrical engineer and inventor who's best-known for creating a radio wave-based wireless telegraph system and is credited for being the inventor of radio.

Recipe adapted from Albert Stevens Crockett's 1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days. Earlier in the book, under the heading "Big Events Spirituously Memorialized", Crockett says the Marconi Wireless "first sprang across the Bar of the Waldorf when the ancestor of the radio began to raise its ghostly voice". That's as maybe, but the Marconi Wireless is a riff on Jacques Straub's 1913 Marconi served frappé with the addition of a couple of dashes of orange bitters.

MARCONI WIRELESS*
Two dashes Orange Bitters
One-third Italian Vermouth.
Two-thirds Apple-jack
Frappé.
Albert Stevens Crockett, Old Waldorf Bar Days, 1931

Review

A dry and refreshing calvados-based apéritif or digestif served frappé, adding to the cleansing nature of this cocktail.

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Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

Just noting the similarity between this and Apple Blossom - prob worth cross-referencing in the variants list.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Brisk and light, but with enough richness to make it sippable as well. I made half as wasn’t sure, but immediately had to make the second half!

Annabelle Egginton 1y

Nice, if you like a martini, this will make a satisfactory alternative.

Avery Garnett 2y

Dry. Very, very dry. For me, I needed to add a barspoon of rich simple to get out of the desert and start enjoying the drink.

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