Lakeshore

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Ingredients:
2 oz Light gold rum (1-3 year old molasses column)
1 oz Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
1⁄4 oz Fernet Branca liqueur
1⁄4 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
× 1 1 serving
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Prepare:

  1. Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. No garnish to prepare.

How to make:

  1. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

  1. Serve naked, without garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 8/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 8/10
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Review:

A variation on PDT's Newark Cocktail, the Lakeshore is a delicious spirit-forward, herbal, fresh, bittersweet aperitivo or cleansing late-night digestivo.

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Variant:

DuBoudreau

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2025 by Adapted from a recipe created in 2025 by Jason E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails. of Clapham Cocktails in Oxford, England. Jason's recipe is based on Planteray 3 Star Rum.

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Alcohol content:

  • 1.9 standard drinks
  • 25.32% alc./vol. (25.32° proof)
  • 26.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Stephen C’s Avatar Stephen C
19th August at 02:28
Subbed the fernet with cynar. liked it well enough.
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Andy Parnell-Hopkinson’s Avatar Andy Parnell-Hopkinson
16th August at 17:29
It's good. I like fernet but it's a real attention- seeker, it's all, me me me. Maybe some other accent flavour would allow the others to get some space?
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JP Rosevear’s Avatar JP Rosevear
16th August at 10:56
Regarding origin, this is basically the Duboudreau Cocktail from Meehan's Bartender Manual (p 341) with Rum instead of Rittenhouse Rye.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
17th August at 10:53
Thanks. I've added Jim's DuBoudreau to Difford's Guide with links between the two cocktails as variations.
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Tuber Magnatum’s Avatar Tuber Magnatum
15th August at 22:26
Very nice and works well as a bittersweet apertivo. I would like to try again but use a different amaro; maybe Cynar?
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