Name: Don Pone
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 15 ml White crème de cacao; 10 ml Ginger liqueur

Don Pone
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
0.08 oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
¹⁄₂ oz	White crème de cacao liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Ginger liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered crystallised ginger and grated dark chocolate.
RINSE glass with maraschino liqueur (swirl around to coat and discard excess) and set to one side.
STIR other ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into maraschino rinsed glass.
Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger and dust with grated dark chocolate.

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

Maraschino cherry aromas strike you first as you enjoy this cognac-laced, subtly chocolate and ginger after-dinner cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2015 by Pascal Pone at W Hotel, Verbier, Switzerland.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
26.88% alc./vol. (26.88° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Justin Aniello

28th March at 00:03

The wash of maraschino works perfectly with the ginger, nice pop of chocolate on the swallow. Cognac dominates the front but nothing wrong with that. Thought it good but not amazing at first, once it warmed a little it was much improved.

Mark Messingham

10th January at 22:39

I enjoyed this very much, a nicely balanced sipper……….very spiced when eating the crystallised ginger. Yum.

Caspian Berggren

9th December 2024 at 19:48

The combination of ginger and chocolate is really nice. Certainly a combination that should be used more often in cocktails.

Louise Allen

29th September 2024 at 21:24

I tipped the (slightly generous) rinse of maraschino into the drink. It's a very tasty beverage, I was suspicious at the lack of sour but it really doesn't need it. it's very nicely balanced albeit a bit sweeter than I'd usually go for (but see note above that is the likely cause). Now I need to buy more cognac as I made this to use up a bottle.

Sabine Cocktail Club

28th February 2024 at 22:21

Did this recipe change? I have no memory of adding maraschino as a wash a few years ago! At any rate, delicious.

Simon Difford

29th February 2024 at 08:59

The recipe looks to be the same as in my notes when I first added it to Difford's Guide on 26/Apr/16.

John Hinojos

23rd September 2022 at 03:31

What an excellent evening sipper. I would have never thought to put all of these ingredients together, but they blend so perfectly. The cognac adds the base and the rest enhance with their own flavours.

Kelley Reece

11th September 2021 at 02:35

Adds a nice “roundness” to the natural flavors of a quality cognac with subtle notes of ginger. Good evening sipper.

jason keane

14th June 2021 at 04:53

Not bad. I added a couple of drops of chocolate bitters. I served it in an old fashioned glass per the instructions (despite the picture). The cherry note balances the sweetness well. A good sipper- can’t decide if it’s a before or after dinner drink.