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

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

³⁄₄ fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

³⁄₄ fl oz

Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Last of the Oaxacans contains 181 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.71% alc./vol. (47.43° proof)
22.9 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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trendomexico Premium Member 8w

Thanx to the lord I read the comments first, because I thought I already make this. -the closing argument- nevertheless I have to make ALL the Last Word variations. So let's go . Is very good. I used mexican mezcal -there are two: the ones for internal market, the ones for external, one hard SMOKY, other lesser intense. It is a good Last Word. Now I am about two months I think doing all the Last Words. As soon as I finished I will start to make each page of the Difford printed guide. I think it would take 1 or 2 decades.

Matt Premium Member 24w

A very good cocktail, but I think the green Chartreuse is just a little too much for the mezcal to match - the smokiness is lost in the mass of Chartreuse botanicals and spices, with the tart lime accented by the maraschino emerging late in the taste.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

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 Premium Member 2y

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 Premium Member 2y

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

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 2y

btw we love them both 🙂 and that's my Last Word on the subject!

Maho Lomez 3y

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 5y

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

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

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.