Name: Dubonnet Cocktail No.1
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1 1/2 fl oz

Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
22.05% alc./vol. (44.09° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 2y

Trying with a recently acquired (and rapidly disappearing) bottle of ford’s gin. Lovely dry, aromatic and complex. Eminently drinkable at first, then some of the bitter elements linger, adding depth. I love the excellent balance of sweet, dry, sour and bitter here. And the lemon twist works a dream.

Chris Lamb Premium Member 3y

Some more about this being the "favourite pre-luncheon tipple" of the UK's previous monarch can be found in this 2003 piece in the LRB https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n22/thomas-jones/short-cuts. Note in particular that this source suggests equal parts were preferred, not 2:1 as specified in another comment.