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Woxum

Name: Woxum
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 15 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (24)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist .
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Woxum contains 186 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
28.19% alc./vol. (56.38° proof)
21.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Recipe is adapted from Albert Stevens Crockett's 1935 The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book.

Review

The flavour of Chartreuse shines through in this slightly sweet, spirituous cocktail. Historically served straight-up but we prefer on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass.