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Sidney (or St. Moritz)

Name: Sidney (or St. Moritz)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 30 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Dry vermouth

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
1 fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Fluet Old Fashioned Gold Rim 34cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered green olives.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

Garnish with skewered olives.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Sidney (or St. Moritz) contains 223 calories

Alcohol content:

2.1 standard drinks
33.33% alc./vol. (66.67° proof)
30.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Cocktails by "Jimmy" Late of Ciro's published in London in 1930.

SIDNEY
3 parts Rye Whisky
2 parts Yellow Chartreuse
1 part French Vermouth
Serve with an olive or cherry.
Cocktails by "Jimmy" Late of Ciro's, 1930

This cocktail also appears, listed as "Sidney or St. Moritz" in David A. Embury's 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

SIDNEY or ST. MORITZ
Dry Manhattan with 1 dash orange bitters and 2 or 3 dashes Chartreuse to each drink. Stir. At the St. Moritz Hotel this drink is served in Old-Fashioned glasses. Some recipes call for equal parts of Chartreuse and French vermouth.
David A. Embury, The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, 1948

Review

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks David A. Embury says, "At the St. Moritz Hotel this drink is served in Old-Fashioned glasses." It's spirit-forward, so benefits from the added dilution of being served on-the-rocks rather than straight-up.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Comments & Discussion

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Peter M Premium Member 1y

This was really good with Wild Turkey 101 Rye, Yellow Chartreuse, & Dolin Dry. Not as herbal as I expected; great balance! Not overly boozy. A little sweet. Nice use of Yellow Chartreuse.