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Fly Like a Butterfly

Name: Fly Like a Butterfly
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Dry vermouth; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 15 ml Orange juice

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (17)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1/2 fl oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Fly Like a Butterfly contains 100 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
10.15% alc./vol. (20.29° proof)
9.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

Created by yours truly, this is my take on a classic cocktail called a 'Lovely Butterfly' made with the same ingredients.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

This light, aromatic, sweet and sour beauty has a grown-up, quinine-rich flavour but lacks the 'sting like a bee' finish.

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Comments & Discussion

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Jack Reid 4y

This is a really interesting drink. It has an unusual taste. I don't mean that negatively, I mean that it doesn't really taste like anything else. It is very nicely balanced and it's not a large drink--several of them could easily go down very rapidly.

I do have to say mine did not look great at all--it was a muddy brown colour. But that was probably because I was finishing off a bottle of Martini Rosso that had been in fridge a bit longer than recommended.