Name: Caneflower cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cachaça; 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur

Caneflower cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Cachaça
³⁄₄ oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
¹⁄₂ oz	Elderflower liqueur

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How to make:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Rust coloured and bittersweet with cachaça and elderflower.

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Variant:

Comte de Sureau

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Jeffrey Morgenthaler in Portland, Oregon, USA. Jeff's original recipe calls for a "generous twist of lemon" rather than orange. On JeffreyMorgenthaler.com, he says this cocktail was "Inspired in part by a gorgeous cocktail created by my good friend Gonçalo de Souza Monteiro, the Comte de Sureau."

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Nutrition:

One serving of Caneflower cocktail contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.41% alc./vol. (22.41° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Sarah R

16th February at 00:19

No, just no. Too much elderflower liquor. Overly floral and not pleasant to drink

Garth Stanish

16th January at 08:10

As noted by others, defintely on the sweeter side and I think the elderflower gets a bit lost ( I was using the gorgeous no8 distillery elderflower liqueur) but for all that, a pleasant drink.

Shara Dale

27th October 2024 at 04:29

This is infinitely better when the juice of half a lime is added.
Prior to adding the lime, it was overpoweringly sweet and bitter, and difficult to discern any specific ingredient other than the Cachaça.
Once the lime was added the flavours really opened up, and the Elderflower and Aperol were no longer overpowered.
It went from being an absolute slog to drink, to one of my favourites.

Kathryn Foyster

20th June at 19:04

Thanks for the tip with the lime - tried without and although I quite liked it, definitely on the sweet side. Lovely with the lime added. :o)

Justine Fehley

10th April 2024 at 01:04

Accidentally made this reversed proportions of Aperol and elderflower, but still turned out pretty great. Will have to try again with the original recipe.

Jeff Newcastle

29th October 2023 at 20:37

Followed recipe to the letter and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a sweet drink but didn’t spoil my enjoyment. (In fact I’m probably going to make another one right now) Looking forward to trying the Comte de Sureau next.

Ian Lessels

22nd July 2023 at 21:48

I took my first sip with some trepidation. I really wasn't sure how those varied ingredients were going to work but it's a terrific cocktail

Avery Garnett

16th July 2023 at 19:19

Went with 1 dash orange bitters as I like a sweeter drink but wanted to try to balance it a little. Very tasty.

Wes O'Morrow

14th June 2023 at 13:20

This drink is sweet but lovely, much better than I expected (used Capucana Cachaça and Luxardo Aperitivo). I tried with lemon bitters as well, and that helped balance the drink (also tried a lemon twist but the aroma was not as good as with the orange twist)

Kjell Eriksson

7th September 2021 at 15:36

I’m just now sipping this drink, and thought I’d rate it because it wasn’t all to my liking. And I found that I had already done that! And I gave it a 4! I had to revise that down to 3.5, it’s too sweet for my palate. Next time I will follow some useful suggestions below from fellow discerning drinkers and add a touch of lime or lemon juice, and maybe cut the elderflower a little. And perhaps go for Campari instead of Aperol. We’ll see. Trial and error, eh?

Simon Difford

7th September 2021 at 16:36

Perhaps also worth checking the sweet to dry scale above. 5 is heading towards being on the sweet side. I applied this, along with the gentle to boozy scale, on most cocktails now and I'm adding to the ones it's missing on as part of my program of remaking all old recipes to check. I now also check comments before making a cocktail as so useful. Many thanks for commenting!

Martin Schwartz

13th June 2021 at 01:37

I liked this cocktail. I used Rosso Amaro (a Campari wannabe) which worked quite well. I'm not a fan of elderflower but the St. Germain really made the drink. It's now in the rotation.

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