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Glee Club Cocktail

Name: Glee Club Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 75 ml Amontillado sherry; 22.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Framboise eau-de-vie; 2 dash Absinthe; 2 dash Burlesque bitters

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Ingredients
2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry
³⁄₄ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Framboise/raspberry eau-de-vie
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 dash	Burlesque bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in a Speakeasy Coupe 8.5oz

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist and Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and discard.
Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
21.25% alc./vol. (42.5° proof)
24.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Amontillado sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The Glee Club Cocktail first appeared in Tim Daly's 1903 Daly's Bartenders' Encyclopedia and comprised "2 dashes of orange bitters, 1 dash of yellow Chartreuse, 1 dash of maraschino, 1 wine glass of raspberry wine."

This recipe, adapted from one by Jack McGarry at New York's Dead Rabbit, uses framboise eau-de-vie in place of raspberry wine.

More cocktails by Jack McGarry

Review

Raspberry notes hit your palate first, followed by Chartreuse influenced sherry. Fruity yet spirit-forward and complex.

Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry 750ml - makes 10 cocktails
$17.99 $1.80 per cocktail

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La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 320 cocktails
$17.99 $0.06 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

$1.86 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 10 cocktails.
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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 44w

Incredibly complex and interesting. First of all, you need to love Amontillado sherry to like this cocktail. It's obviously going to dominate most of it. The eau-de-vie is a great counterplay to it though, making it fresh and interesting. The chartreuse adds some herbal complex and sweetness which balances the whole experience. Not sure if I get the bitters too much but the absinthe provides a nice accent.