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Claret Cobbler

Name: Claret Cobbler
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 22.5 ml Grand Marnier; 50 ml Claret wine

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (19)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Claret wine (Bordeaux red)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Goblet glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a GOBLET GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint sprigs bouquet and perhaps seasonal berries.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into glass filled with crushed ice.

Garnish

Garnish with mint sprigs bouquet (and optional berries).
Serve with a straw.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Claret Cobbler contains 200 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
20.97% alc./vol. (41.93° proof)
26.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Claret wine (Bordeaux red) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

A Claret Cobbler appears in Jerry Thomas' 1862 The Bart-enders' Guide.

Sherry Cobbler.
(Use large bar glass.)
2 wine-glasses of sherry.
1 table-spoonful of sugar.
2 0r 3 slices of orange.
Fill a tumbler with shaved ice, shake well, and ornament with berries in season. Place a straw as represented in the wood-cut.

Catawba Cobbler.
(Use large bar glass.)
1 teaspoonful of sugar dissolved in one table-spoonful of water.
2 wineglasses of wine.
Fill tumbler with shaved ice, and ornament with sliced orange and berries in season. Place a straw as described
in the sherry cobbler.

Claret Cobbler.
(Use large bar glass.)
This drink is made the same way as the Catawba cobbler, using claret wine instead of Catawba.
Jerry Thomas, The Bart-enders' Guide, 1862

See: Cobblers cocktail history

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

Fortified and slightly sweetened red wine, served cobbler-style with crushed ice.

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Caitlin Eisner Premium Member 33w

I could really only taste the wine. I can see what Thomas was going for, but I don't think it works with modern ingredients.

Matt Premium Member 1y

I dislike this cocktail. It is bad - somehow the wine conspires with the cognac and Grand Marnier to create a harsh, shallow cocktail. This may be the worst drink rated 4* or higher on Diffords that I have tried.

James Dorman 3y

This wasn't bad, but the cognac and Grand Marnier didn't really harmonize with the red wine as I would have hoped. They felt like they were playing second fiddle to the wine.

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