Name: Last of the Oaxacans
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Mezcal; 22.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 22.5 ml Chartreuse Green; 22.5 ml Lime juice

Last of the Oaxacans
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
³⁄₄ oz	Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Chartreuse Verte (Green Chartreuse)
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with skewered cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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Review:

A classic equal parts Last Word but with mezcal in place of the usual gin.

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Variant:

Ultima Palabra, and same recipe as a Closing Argument
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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2016 by Rick Dobbs at The Last Word bar in Livermore, California, USA.
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Nutrition:

One serving of Last of the Oaxacans contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.71% alc./vol. (23.71° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

14th February at 21:17

One of the more underwhelming riffs on a Last Word. The mezcal just laying on the other ingredients like years of cigarette smoke on cheap upholstery.

Simon Sedgley

30th May 2024 at 07:00

Apart from the garnish and the order in which the ingredients are listed, how is this different from a Closing Argument? Precisely the same ingredients in the same volumes. And yet the Closing Argument receives a higher rating. Alchemy indeed. Or am I missing something?

Simon Sedgley

30th May 2024 at 07:04

Oh, apologies, I now see that this was addressed in previous comments. But my question and puzzlement about the different ratings stands, I think.

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Maho Lomez

30th November 2022 at 23:28

This is delicious with Vicario Monk's Secret liqueur in place of Chartreuse verte. It adds a similar herbal complexity with a distinct, more assertive flavour profile, which would overpower the juniper in a Last Word, but plays nicely with the mezcal here, in my opinion.

Ignacio Seligra

17th September 2021 at 16:34

This is the same (both ingredients and proportions) as the Closing Argument - the cocktail recipe, that's it, except for the garnish.

Simon Difford

18th September 2021 at 14:10

Agreed. Just as the Picador is the same as the Margarita but in this case, I know the Picador came first. I don't know who created the Closing Argument or when. I've added a link between the two drinks under Variation above.

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