Name: Six Cylinder
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Gin; 20 ml Cherry (brandy) liqueur; 20 ml Campari or other red bitter liqueur; 20 ml Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine; 10 ml Vermouth - Dry; 10 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in an

Urban Bar Retro Optic Coupe 21cl

Garnish:

Orange zest twist expressed and discarded. Adorn with Skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherry

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

2/3 fl oz	Gin
2/3 fl oz	Heering Cherry Liqueur
2/3 fl oz	Strucchi Red Bitter Liqueur
2/3 fl oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
1/3 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/3 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
Loading... Servings

Read about cocktail measures and measuring.

It's International Vodka Day

Our friends across the pond have given us a reason to celebrate. In America, the 4th of October is National Vodka Day, so by extension, for the rest of

National Liqueur Day

Of all the unofficial National Holidays to emerge from the USA, National Liqueur Day is surely one of the highlights of the calendar.

International Gin and Tonic Day

Founded in 2010 (according to Wikipedia) and celebrated annually worldwide on the 19th October, International Gin & Tonic Day is just as it sounds –

World Calvados Day

The folk at Avallen Calvados launched World Calvados Day in 2020 to celebrate the French apple brandy.

National Mezcal Day

Perhaps this page should read 'International Mezcal Day', as although this 'National Day' is an all American creation there are a great many of us around

Halloween Cocktails

Ghosts and goblins, gargoyles and graves: it's that time of year again to cut up old sheets, paint on the fake blood, stock up on sweets and make a good

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strucchi Dry Vermouth – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Strucchi Rosso Vermouth – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

View readers' comments

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar booziness and sweet/dry/sourness

Review:

A bittersweet aperitivo or digestivo with pleasing subtle rich cherry notes.

History:

Adapted from a recipe in Stanley M. Jones' 1977 Jones' Complete Barguide.

SIX CYLINDER
Cocktail Glass
Shake
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz cherry flavoured brandy
1/2 oz Campari
1/2 oz Dubonnet
1/2 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz sweet vermouth
Stanley M. Jones, Jones' Complete Barguide, 1977

Nutrition:

One serving of Six Cylinder contains 200 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.53% alc./vol. (39.06° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

More Bittersweet cocktails
More After dinner/digestif cocktails
More Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails

Difford's Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Previous Cocktail
Wiffin

Next Cocktail
Doctor No. 2

Join the Discussion

... comment(s) for Six Cylinder

You must log in to your account to make a comment.

Six Cylinder

Serve in a

Photographed in an

Garnish: