Name: Tuxedo Affumicato
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Mezcal; 20 ml Aromatized wine; 10 ml Maraschino liqueur; 1 dash Creole bitters

Tuxedo Affumicato
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
²⁄₃ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₃ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist and a mist of Liquore Strega from an atomizer over drink.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Mezcal lends a lightly smoky note to this riff on the classic Tuxedo. This boozy Martini-esque cocktail makes for a great aperitif.

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Variant:

Tuxedo "Original" - equal parts (1½oz/45ml) old tom gin and (1½oz/45ml) dry vermouth with 2 dashes maraschino; 1 dash absinthe; 2 or 3 dashes of orange bitters.
Tuxedo No. 1 (Savoy & Duffy's recipe) - equal parts dry gin and dry vermouth with lemon peel and absinthe.
Tuxedo No. 2 (Savoy & Duffy's recipe) - equal parts dry gin and dry vermouth with maraschino, orange bitters and absinthe.
Tuxedo No. 3 (Lowe & Straub's recipe) - two-thirds dry gin to one-third dry vermouth with sherry, maraschino, absinthe and aromatic bitters.
Tuxedo No.4 (AKA Tussetto) - two-thirds dry gin to one-third dry sherry with orange bitters.
Tuxedo (Difford's recipe) - as per the "Original" but with dry sherry and some balancing sweetness by splitting dry and bianco vermouths.
Flora Bar's Tuxedo No.2 - in an absinthe-rinsed glass with dry gin, bianco vermouth, maraschino liqueur and orange bitters.

History:

Created in 2016 by Riccardo Aletta (AKA 'Ricky D Wing') at Holy Birds in London, England.
See: Tuxedo cocktail history

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Nutrition:

One serving of Tuxedo Affumicato contains 136 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
26.44% alc./vol. (26.44° proof)
18.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Dr Drink

27th August 2024 at 02:44

I might have to play around with this one. It’s good, but I feel like the floral notes should be accentuated even more

Calvin Grant

29th January 2024 at 04:15

Subtle, complex, exceptional. I used Apaluz from Durango, not super smokey and it works well here! Loved the Strega Mist!

Nathan Anderson

11th April 2021 at 04:48

Great cocktail, but I prefer it with Fidencio mezcal and the slightly less floral, more salinated bianco vermouth. It’s the atomized Strega (Curandero due to the mezcal???) that really puts this cocktail over the top though.