Name: Golden Retriever
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Light gold rum 1-3yo; 10 ml Chartreuse Green; 15 ml Licor 43; 10 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Licor 43 Original liqueur

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR 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 Golden Retriever contains 136 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
26.83% alc./vol. (53.66° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Loz Horner 40w

It is paler than the picture. And yes it is sweet. But it’s good. Vegetal meets vanilla. Agree that the rum disappears so will try the dialled down versions people suggest next time.

Markus Gunnar Premium Member 1y

Color in the picture was not what I got. Very light yellow/green hue. I dialed down the Licor 43 and upped the rum and Chartreuse. Stilll vanilla-forward.

It needs the extra dilution. It's a dessert style cocktail.

Albert Markiewicz 31w

Ehm if you dialed down a golden liqueur and upped a green liqueur, isn't it obvious that the colour will bedifferent?

Bill and Audrey Kopp 1y

Very nice drink. We used Faccia Brutto in place of the green chartreuse, and were satisfied with the results. Tasty and complex. It's nice to find a rum cocktail that does not call for sugar syrup.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

This is one of those cocktails that can benefit from being served on the rocks. It really has a fascinating evolution in the glass. The Licor 43 and Chartreuse take turns dominating the cocktail but as it gets more diluted they find their places - Chartreuse dominates in the front and mid of the palate whereas the 43 dominates on the nose and in the finish. The rum is disappointing though, it's completely run over by the liqueurs. Use something more assertive than Havana 3...

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

We agree with other commenters here that a couple of dashes of bitters elevates this cocktail. We went with grapefruit bitters. This one really does need to be paired with a Roquefort cheese to allow its voice to be part of a heavenly chorus.

Ian Lessels Premium Member 1y

Can you tell me how you "express" orange zest? I really don't know what that means.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Please click "EXPRESS" in the 'How to make' for an explanation.

Peter M Premium Member 2y

As others mentioned, you'll really need to make sure you get the dilution right for your own taste, but the result is a smooth, tasty mildly vanilla herbal rum drink. Yum.

Jake Reichert 2y

As with others, my first impression was that the strength, wild, delicious, lacked an acid to provide balance. I added a few squeezes of lime juice, which improved it, but next time I think I might use something more potent like grapefruit bitters. I also felt like the chartreuse overpowered the flavor of the Licor 43. They are two of my favorite Lecure’s, but next time I think I might increase the Licor 43 to 3/4 oz and decrease the chartreuse to 1/4 oz.

Steven Jepson Premium Member 2y

First taste was a bit sweet - so gave it a bit longer on the stir and added two dashes of Scrappys Lime Bitters.
Just gave it that edge back and very nice too.