Name: Montreal Cocktail (official city cocktail)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Canadian rye whisky; 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 22.5 ml Gentian liqueur

Ingredients

3/4 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

3/4 fl oz

Canadian rye whisky

3/4 fl oz

Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo

3/4 fl oz

Gentian liqueur Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Avèze, Salers)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Montreal Cocktail (official city cocktail) contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
22.68% alc./vol. (45.35° proof)
20.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Collaboratively created in the summer of 2017 by fifteen Montreal bartenders, with the "hope to not only inspire the people of our great city, but those of other communities across the globe, to give life and to embrace the Montreal Cocktail as a modern-day classic."

The initiative, which coincided with Montreal's 375th anniversary, was led by Kevin Demers, owner of Montreal's Coldroom. The other team members were Brynley Leach, Charles Landry, Chris Natale, Drahos Chytry, Fabien Maillard, Graham Warner, Hugo Dallaire, Jason Griffin, Kate Boushel, Philippe Haman, Sabrina Mailhot, Sam Dalcourt, Tony Galdes, and Jean-Maxime Giguere.

Comments & Discussion

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

This is delicious. Never knew Suze and Aperol went together, or gin and rye, but they all do in this cocktail. Perfectly balanced between sweet, bitter and boozy.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

Due to recent events I decided to try this again with Swedish gin, Finnish Rosita, French Suze and Canadian rye. Still great, one of my favourites!

Chris Brislawn 1y

I was suspicious of the gin-rye combo but this really works. Didn't have a fresh grapefruit but orange zest was fine and lemon would be, too. It's a testament to the committee that put this together that the recipe doesn't contain 15 different ingredients.