Name: Swiss Account
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 15 ml Gentian liqueur; 10 ml Bénédictine D.O.M.; 6 drop Hop grapefruit bitters

Swiss Account
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Glass:

Photographed in an UB Nick and Nora Gold 6oz

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
6 drop	Hopped grapefruit bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

A vodka charged bittersweet aperitif with herbal notes laced with grainy vodka.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2017 by Griffin Cox at Lot Six in Halifax, Canada.

Hailed as a venerable French bitter, the story of Suze veritably began to the west in Switzerland before it was brought across the border by Fernand Moureaux in 1885. The Swiss Account pays homage to that beginning and shows how Suze finds its home alongside other French spirits just as it found its home in French palates over a century ago.
Griffin Cox, 2017

45ml Grey Goose Vodka, 15ml Suze, 5ml Bénédictine and 2 dash Bittermens Hopped Grapefruit Bitters.
Original recipe by Griffin Cox, 2017

Nutrition:

One serving of Swiss Account contains 158 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
28.06% alc./vol. (56.12° proof)
19.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Tim Cull

6th July at 02:43

I found two dashes of grapefruit bitters to be too acerbic. Hard to say what one dash would have been, but I suspect maybe better

Simon Difford

6th July at 17:47

Agreed. I've reduced to 6 drops of hopped grapefruit bitters.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson

30th April 2022 at 11:55

Found it rather sweet so tried gin instead of vodka. Not a great improvement. Might try chucking in some lemon juice at the risk of making a completely different drink.

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