Nutty Pear

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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1⁄4 oz Disaronno amaretto
1 oz Pear purée
2 oz Brut champagne/sparkling wine
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Pear slice on rim

How to make:

SHAKE first three ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass over champagne.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Review:

As the name suggests pear and almond are the main flavours with calvados providing backbone and hints of apple, while champagne dries and adds effervescence.

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History:

Created in September 2014 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Nutty Pear contains 193 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.4 standard drinks
  • 14.09% alc./vol. (14.09° proof)
  • 20.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Dona Dinkler’s Avatar Dona Dinkler
26th August 2021 at 22:41
Normally, I would strain ingredients into a chilled glass then add the Champagne, but that’s not how your directions read. You really want the Champagne to go into the glass first and the strained ingredients go on top of the champagne?
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
29th March 2022 at 09:26
Pouring the shaken ingredients over the sparkling wine helps mix the cocktail and saves the need to briefly stir to combine - any stirring inevitably affects fizz. Also pouring over the sparkling wine also means the wine does not fizz up as much.
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