Name: Carrol Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Cognac (brandy); 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth

Carrol Cocktail
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Photographed in an Urban Bar 1910 Retro Coupette 15cl

Ingredients:
2 oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
1 oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered pickled walnut or onion.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered pickled walnut or onion.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Strength & taste guide:

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Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Basically a Brandy Manhattan without bitters. Spirit-forward and dry yet easy.

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Variant:

Carrol Gardens
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History:

A pre-Prohibition era cocktail published in the 1923 book "Harry" of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails.

Carrol Cocktail.
1/3 Italian Vermouth, 2/3 Brandy.
Serve with pickled walnut in cocktail glass.
(This cocktail was well known at the Plaza Hotel, New York, before Prohibition.)
Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, 1923

Nutrition:

One serving of Carrol Cocktail contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
25.2% alc./vol. (25.2° proof)
22.7 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

12th November 2024 at 17:54

This drink must live or die depending on the use and/or quality of the garnish. Where does one procure a pickled f'n walnut?! It's existence is news to me... Cocchi di Torino and a generic VSOP Cognac at these specs resulted in boredom.

Simon Difford

14th November 2024 at 17:44

Numerous brands of jarred picked walnuts are available. e.g. Opies via Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Opies-Pickled-Walnuts/dp/B00KM5673W

G. M. Genovese

12th November 2024 at 17:57

The photo of the drink baffles me. What's up with the apparent foam top and the ebony Pacman fruitlessly trying to bite through the glass to get a sip?

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Chris Dimal

1st January 2023 at 23:18

Absolute disappointment. Couldn't even taste any vermouth. Need a vermouth and soda now.

James Pratt

13th June 2022 at 18:55

This dates back much earlier than Trader Vic: it is included in both MacElhone books (ABC of Mixing Cocktails and Barflies & Cocktails), Savoy Cocktail Book, and Boothby’s 1934 edition of World Drinks and How to Mix Them.

Simon Difford

14th June 2022 at 09:44

Thanks, James. The earliest reference I can find is in 1923 Harry of Ciro’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails.

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