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

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Glass:

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₁₂ fl oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Ginger liqueur

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered crystallised ginger and grated dark chocolate.

How to make:

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:

Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger and dust with grated dark chocolate.

Strength & taste guide:

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Medium

Dry/sour

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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. (53.76° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Ruth Harvey

5th July at 18:53

It was my second cocktail of the evening - on a "school night" - so I decided to make a half portion. Slightly tipsy and a bit tired I got into a "right muddle"! Added the ginger liquor twice so had to compensate with the other ingredients
Ended up adding bits of this and that until I had an enormous - but delicious - cocktail! Might have to bunk off tomorrow 😜

Tim Cull

13th March at 04:14

I expected to kinda like this but not necessarily love it. I was wrong. I LOVE IT.

I went ever so slightly lighter than suggested with the ginger and I think that was a good bet.

Loz Horner

29th November 2025 at 21:10

Very good. Went slightly too big on the ginger having misread the ingredients but it mattered not. In fact if you like strong ginger in your chocolate I can recommend it.

Justin Aniello

28th March 2025 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 2025 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.