Nineteen Twenty Cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (5 ratings)

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 13 oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
13 oz Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
13 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
16 oz Groseille (redcurrant) syrup
1 dash La Fée Parisienne absinthe
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of redcurrant bunch laid across rim.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 3/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10

Review:

Bite-sized and delicately flavoured – the combination of redcurrant syrup and kirsch is almost rose water-like, diluted by dry vermouth with a splash of gin adding botanical complexity.

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History:

The Nineteen-Twenty Cocktail first appears in Harry McElhone's 1922 Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails and also notably in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Nineteen-Twenty Cocktail.
1 dash of Ansinthe, 1/6 Pernod Kirschwasser, 1/6Crystal Gin, 2/3 French Vermouth, 1 teaspoon of Groiselle Syrup.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.

Harry McElhone, Harry's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1922

NINETEEN-TWENTY COCKTAIL.
1 Teaspoonful Groseille Syrup.
1/6 Pernod Kirsch.
1/6 Crystal Gin.
2/3 French Vermouth.
1 Dash Absinthe.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass

Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Nineteen Twenty Cocktail contains 103 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 0.9 standard drinks
  • 19.09% alc./vol. (19.09° proof)
  • 12.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Reid Morin’s Avatar Reid Morin
23rd January 2022 at 03:34
The Rose has 3 of the 5 ingredients in this and tastes almost the same, and I think it tastes slightly better