Name: Dubonnet Cocktail No.1
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Rouge aromatised wine

Dubonnet Cocktail No.1
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Simple yet complex. Dry and aromatic.

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Variant:

If shaken this becomes a Zaza and with lemon juice a Dubonnet No.2

History:

A classic cocktail that was popular in Britain during the 1920s and appeared in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

DUBONNET COCKTAIL.
½ Dubonnet.
½ Dry Gin.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Alcohol content:

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

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John CARR

21st June 2024 at 12:55

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

19th July 2023 at 12:21

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.