Meditation

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry
3⁄4 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1⁄6 oz Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
1⁄6 oz Fernet Branca liqueur
1⁄6 oz Monin Grenadine Syrup
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

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

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

Sherry underpins this brilliantly balanced cocktail with delicate herbal fruity notes.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Charles Christopher Mueller's 1934 Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars.

MEDITATION
3/4 jigger sherry
1/4 Vermouth
Dash Green Chartreuse
Dash fernet branca
Dash grenadine
Glass No. 2. Shake.

Charles A. Tuck, Cocktails and Mixed Drinks, 1967

Nutrition:

One serving of Meditation contains 142 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 15.66% alc./vol. (15.66° proof)
  • 15.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Werd Bmocsil’s Avatar Werd Bmocsil
20th May at 00:16
Finally! A good use for the dusty bottle of Contratto Fernet in my cabinet.
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G. M. Genovese’s Avatar G. M. Genovese
18th May 2024 at 12:47
First sip is all sherry and rosso. Second sip, hmm, now I'm getting a soft swell of the Chartreuse and Fernet. Wait (depending on your brand or recipe; my house variety is on point) and, a few beats into the aftertaste, the grenadine does briefly bloom. Kind of remarkable... Let the drink sit, and the flavors marry, and the edge of the sherry tames, and this becomes a fine sipper. Well, I never...
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maya foster’s Avatar maya foster
3rd April 2024 at 04:42
Wow. Much better than I anticipated.
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James Casswell’s Avatar James Casswell
24th March 2024 at 19:46
Lacking Amontillado I used Fino and still ended up with a lovely, complex and balanced drink. Will definitely be making again.
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