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Lord Lucan

Name: Lord Lucan
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Peated malt whisky; 22.5 ml Amaro (e.g. Lucano); 22.5 ml Vermouth amaro (Pun.); 1 dash Orange bitters

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Peated single malt whisky
³⁄₄ fl oz	Lucano amaro
³⁄₄ fl oz	Punt E Mes vermouth amaro
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS flamed orange zest twist over cocktail, then use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Lord Lucan contains 190 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
25.58% alc./vol. (51.16° proof)
23.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Vermouth amaro - robust & full (e.g. Punt E Mes) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2016 by Andy Aitken and first published on his Proof Cocktails blog.

Lord Lucan (Richard John Bingham), the 7th Earl of Lucan, was a British peer and an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who disappeared after being named as the prime suspect in the bludgeoning to death of his children's nanny and the attempted murder of his wife, Veronica Duncan. This followed the collapse of their marriage and a bitter custody battle, and Veronica named Lucan as the attacker. His blood-stained car was found abandoned, but the police failed to find Lucan or his body. Despite reported sightings around the world, he was declared legally dead in 1999.

Review

A tamed and smoked Boulevardier. Lordy, it's good!

Lagavulin 16yo Islay single malt whisky 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$89.99 $5.45 per cocktail

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Amaro Lucano 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$29.99 $0.91 per cocktail Amaro Lucano image

Punt E Mes 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$27.99 $0.85 per cocktail Punt E Mes image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

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Frederic D. Premium Member 7w

Peated Scotch tempered by amaro and vermouth, what's not to like? I used Lagavulin Distiller's Edition, and I found this quite pleasant. Punt e Mes and Lucano are sturdy enough to stand up to the Scotch, whose smokiness does indeed come through nicely.

Peter Barth 1y

I'm not so sure about the use of Amaro Lucano for the amaro part. Might retry with Amaro Formidabile or Amaro Nardini. The deep smokiness is a treat however.

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