Name: French 1605
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 ml Chartreuse Green; 10 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Élixir Végétal; 90 ml Brut sparkling wine

French 1605
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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₃ oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
¹⁄₃ oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₂ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 dash	Chartreuse Élixir Végétal
3 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Flute glass.
Prepare garnish of tip of a mint sprig.
SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.
Garnish with the tip of mint sprig floated on cocktail.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Cocktail of the day:

16th May 2025 is Chartreuse Day

Review:

Chartreuse herbal complexity and richness are soured by lemon and invigorated by brut sparkling wine/champagne in this riff on a French 75.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in March 2021 by Clare Morrow of Cask Liquid Marketing (UK distributors of Chartreuse) for Chartreuse Day, celebrated annually on 16th May.

Nutrition:

One serving of French 1605 contains 156 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
11.53% alc./vol. (11.53° proof)
15.3 grams of pure alcohol

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.

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Avery Garnett

1st January at 19:35

It's very good - how can chartreuse drinks be bad? but there isn't much going on outside of that. I upped it to 15ml of each chartreuse and it's a vast improvement but the chartreuse is doing basically all of the heavy lifting of the 4.5/5.

Alexandre Lockfeld

9th May 2024 at 02:27

Made this with substitutions: used almost the last of my precious bottle of green Chartreuse, tried Galliano to match the color of yellow Chartreuse if not the flavor profile and a dash of Peychaud’s bitters. And goosed it up with 3/4 oz of vodka to get to the same detonation as a French 75. It was delicious!