Name: Vieux Carré Cocktail
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Whiskey - Bourbon whiskey; 22.5 ml Cognac; 22.5 ml Vermouth - Rosso (sweet) vermouth; 10 ml Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur; 2 Peychaud's / Creole bitters; 1 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass.

3/4 fl oz	Bourbon whiskey
3/4 fl oz	Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac
3/4 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
1/3 fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M.
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
1 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Maker's Mark bourbon, 70cl

£ 27.95 £ 0.90 per cocktail, makes 31 Rémy Martin 1738 Cognac, 70cl

£ 48.75 £ 1.57 per cocktail, makes 31 Martini Rosso sweet vermouth, 75cl

£ 10.25 £ 0.31 per cocktail, makes 33 Bénédictine D.O.M., 70cl

£ 27.95 £ 0.40 per cocktail, makes 70 Peychaud's Aromatic Bitters, 8cl

£ 8.75 £ 0.44 per cocktail, makes 20 Angostura Aromatic Bitters, 20cl

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Review:

A Sweet Manhattan served on-the-rocks with added herbal complexity and an all-important splash and dash or two of New Orlean's French Quarter.

Driven by comments on Difford's Guide, particularly one left in January 2021 (thanks "Tom ."), I changed my Vieux Carré recipe to the one above. This has 25% less bourbon, cognac, and vermouth but the same 10ml of Bénédictine, so amplifying the herbal richness it contributes. (Thanks to Tom's input) I also doubled the Creole bitters. For those who liked the previous recipe:
30 ml Bourbon
30 ml Cognac
30 ml Rosso vermouth
10 ml Bénédictine D.O.M. (this was 7.5ml pre-April 2020 & in my 15th book)
1 dash Aromatic bitters
1 dash Creole-style bitters

My quest for the perfectly balanced Vieux Carré continues!

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

Created in 1938 by Walter Bergeron, the then head bartender at what is now the Carousel bar at the Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, USA. Pronounced 'Voo-Ka-Ray' or more correctly 'Vyuh Cah-ray', it is named after the French term for New Orleans French Quarter and literally translates as 'old square'.