Name: Harvard
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 45 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2.5 ml Gomme syrup; 3 dash Aromatic bitters; 15 ml Soda (club soda) water

Harvard
Jump to

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. cognac
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
0.08 oz	Gomme syrup
3 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
¹⁄₂ oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water chilled

Read about cocktail measures and measuring

Garnish: Lemon zest twist

How to make:

STIR first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass. TOP with soda.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile

Review:

Old-school, but approachably so. Dry and herbal. A great apéritif.

View readers' comments

AKA: New Orleans Manhattan

Variant:

Delmonico

History:

This recipe is faithful to the first known reference to this cocktail in George J. Kappeler's 1895 Modern American Drinks – How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks.

In his 1931 book Old Waldorf Bar Days, Albert Stevens Crockett notes of this drink, "Named after a school for young men, whose site is contiguous to the Charles River, in a suburb of Boston. Alumni who drunk it sometimes lost the 'Harvard accent'."

Harvard Cocktail.
One dash gum-syrup, three dashes Angostura bitters, half-jigger Italian vermouth, half-jigger brandy in half a mixing-glass of fine ice. Mix, strain into cocktail-glass, fill up with seltzer.
George J. Kappeler, 1895

Manhattan cocktail history

More cocktails by George Kappeler

Nutrition:

One serving of Harvard contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
18.6% alc./vol. (18.6° proof)
20.2 grams of pure alcohol

More Classic/vintage cocktails
More Hall of Fame & must know/try cocktails
More Nightcap/sipping cocktails
More Spirit-forward cocktails

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

Join the discussion

Showing 1 comment for Harvard.
See discussion in the Forum

Please log in to make a comment

Chris Dimal

27th January 2023 at 22:05

Pretty nice Manhattan variation, suited for wet palates like mine. Should be considered an anytime cocktail, as it can work both as an apéritif and digestif. Works for grape brandy, not just Cognac based on my experience.

See discussion in the Forum