Name: Loose Talk
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Whiskey - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.); 12.5 ml Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc); 12.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 12.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 12.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 25 ml Maraschino liqueur; 5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Mist with flamed Green Chartreuse & rosemary sprig pegged to rim

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

5/6 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.)
5/12 fl oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
5/12 fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse liqueur
5/12 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
5/12 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
5/6 fl oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
1/6 fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M.
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Review:

A riff on a Last Ward, boozy, bittersweet and aromatic.

History:

Created in 2017 by Tom Sherring at Piano Kensington, London, United Kingdom. Name: 'Loose' as in playing loosely with the original ingredients, 'Talk' as in a synonym for word. Echoes the WW2 propaganda slogan (riske nature of the activity of gossip,) and of the pop band Gossip, and the alternative identity gender politics that they stand/stood for."

Visit our Last Word cocktail page for the history and variants of this drink.

Nutrition:

One serving of Loose Talk contains 199 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.04% alc./vol. (46.08° proof)
24.2 grams of pure alcohol

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