Name: Five Keys
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 7.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 7.5 ml Cynar/carciofo amaro

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

³⁄₄ fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Cynar or other carciofo amaro

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Five Keys contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.64% alc./vol. (51.28° proof)
19.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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Anthony Bozza 41w

Lovely this way and also over a rock in an old fashioned glass. Different expressions. I prefer it with 80 proof and cynar 70, going to try it with rye…

Justin Aniello 45w

Very nice, a manhattan with some herbal notes. Did not find it too sweet, I made it with a 100 proof bourbon though which likely helped. Cynar does a good job keeping the maraschino in check.

Shay Dabush 2y

Personally found it not so balanced. Too sweet.
I might test it again, only this time with a bar spoon of Luxardo Maraschino.

Sam Donaldson 4y

Very good and balanced cocktail, especially when made with quality bourbon and sweet vermouth. Bourbon purists will cringe at mixing their holy water with anything but ice, but this is a great drink to win over those who might find the base spirit a little too overpowering.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 4y

By my count, this is at least my third time making this. Didn't think much of it prior to this most recent try. Used Antica Torino for the vermouth, as well as lowered the bourbon (this time, Four Roses) from 45 to 40 ml. All of a sudden, near perfection! Wow! (27 Feb 2022, 7:40a)

Suzanne Corbett 5y

I bumped up the Luxardo just a smidge and it took enough of the bite out of the cynar without masking it completely. This will be a regular cocktail for me!

John Speck 5y

Thanks for this! I like it, but more so when I serve it over a large cube. Undiluted, it’s a bit cloying for me.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 2y

Reading your comment prompted me to give a good long stir as I am not keen on cloying drinks. I found it nicely balanced and not too cloying. As an experiment, I contrasted this after drinking one half with then adding a 2" ice sphere; maybe too much dilution after a long stir! Next time "normal" stir and try on rocks to see if dilution to cloyedness better.