Name: Yellow Cactus Flower
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gentian liqueur; 22.5 ml Mezcal; 22.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Pineapple juice

Yellow Cactus Flower
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
³⁄₄ oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
³⁄₄ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Pineapple juice

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of pineapple wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with pineapple wedge on rim.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Jordan Smith, describes his creation as "bright, herbaceous, subtly smoky, and refreshingly bittersweet." We concur!

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Variant:

Ultima Palabra

History:

Named after the 1929 Georgia O'Keefe painting due to both the shades of yellow, white and green, and for the inclusion of a southwestern ingredient - mezcal.

Adapted from a recipe created in 2017 by Jordan Smith, Head Bartender at Le Coucou French restaurant in Soho, New York City.

Nutrition:

One serving of Yellow Cactus Flower contains 188 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.42% alc./vol. (16.42° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Steven Jepson

4th April at 21:53

Really liked this one - great colour and great taste and a nice sharp bite to it

Egg McKenzie

23rd February at 12:54

oh my days i need to try this

Michael Geller

31st July 2024 at 17:03

I do switch around the mesurment for the Suze and the Mezcal. The result is closer to my personal taste. A bit more rounded, less bitter and the Chartreuse comes more forward.

Steven Jepson

4th April at 21:52

Just tried the original - may have to try your way too

Matt Tench

28th June 2024 at 18:45

I feel I need to comment on this because fabulous but I can’t really improve on the creators own description. Errr, it’s fabulous..! Feels related to the also fabulous Ultima Palabra, IDK the chronology on that.

Steven Jepson

4th April at 23:12

Oh wow - these two drinks are so different buy at the same time so the same. Both are Mezcal, Lime, Pineapple and Chartreuse - but one yellow the other green. The big change being Suze for Maraschino
Very similar in taste breakdown but with one bright yellow the other a mint green the Eye taste makes a difference.
For me the Ultima takes edges it - marginally sweeter and a faint marmalade flavour.