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Brazilian Contessa

Name: Brazilian Contessa
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Cachaça (unaged); 30 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 30 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (65)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Cachaça (unaged)
1 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
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 slice wheel.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with orange slice wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Brazilian Contessa contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
18.12% alc./vol. (36.25° proof)
16.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

A cachaça-based riff on John Gertsen's gin-based Contessa. This recipe is courtesy of Tiago Carpenedo, a fellow Discerning Drinker.

Review

The Contessa is subtly sweet 'n' sour with delicate bitterness with a bold orange hue. A delicious alternative to an Aperitivo Spritz.

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

In some ways I'd classify this as a "bartenders drink", ie a drink that doesn't appeal to everyone but certainly appeal to someone. I think I am that someone. It's like if a Negroni and a Martini had a baby and I love-hate it.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

Ok but didn't pop.

J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails 1y

An excellent aperitivo. In my view it needs a generous orange twist. Bravo!

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