Name: The Bird is the Word No. 1
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 37.5 ml Reposado tequila; 25 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 12.5 ml Apricot liqueur; 25 ml Lemon juice

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₄ fl oz

Reposado tequila (100% agave)

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)

⁵⁄₁₂ fl oz

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur

⁵⁄₆ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE 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

Nutrition:

One serving of The Bird is the Word No. 1 contains 199 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
21.69% alc./vol. (43.38° proof)
23.3 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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trendomexico Premium Member 15w

The tequila and the apricot, make a strage hint to -> mezcal. But is more in the family of the margaritas? And oddly the chartreuse make a very mexican flavor. So it is very good in the tequila department. But it does not recall much as a Last Word. I mean O Sea Palabra Perdida more than a Palabra Última.

Egg McKenzie 1y

yeah ok fine. i'd like it more if it were nicer.

Crystal Light 2y

Been waiting to try this for a while, as I’m a huge fan of The Last Word and its many riffs. I used hquality ingredients, took my first sip, and felt a tad disappointed… but then saw the garnish. So I expressed a lemon twist over the drink and tossed it in.

This utterly TRANSFORMED the drink! I already knew that citrus zest can make a significant difference, but now I see it can make ALL the difference! Although I suppose it could also be that this drink simply grew on me after more sipping…

Avery Garnett 2y

It's reasonably nice and tangy and herbal, but it's relatively muddy in the realm of "tangy herbal sour cocktails that may or may not be last word riffs".

Michael Pulcinella 3y

This will go into my scrapbook of cocktail recipes. My kind of cocktail. Interesting, not too tart, just enough of the tequila comes through. Will make this one again. Tonight!

Sean Baron 3y

This is how I like my cocktails. The right amount of dry and sour for me. It would even get Peter Griffin off his Pawtucket Ale!

Peter Shaw Premium Member 3y

Yes! Too often the Chartreuse can be overpowering, but this is a perfect balance (and I just used a bigger glass, to keep it simple in a 30ml = 1 shot country!!)

Florian Ruf Premium Member 4y

Very good cocktail. With my ingredients it worked perfect with a barspoon (0,5 cl) more of the apricot brandy.

John Hinojos Premium Member 5y

Very interesting. The Yellow Chartreuse add another layer of flavour.

Matthew French 5y

After imbibing The Bird is the Word no.2, I thought I'd revisit this. First time round it was a little too sweet, so this time I added a dash of Bittered Sling's Moondog bitters and for me it was a more rounded mouthful. Considering using your Margarita Bitter's next...