Name: The Quingenti
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Cognac (brandy); 15 ml Apple Schnapps liqueur; 15 ml Vermouth - Dry; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)

Serve in

Martini glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
1/2 fl oz	Apple Schnapps liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
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Hardy VSOP Organic Fine cognac, 70cl

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£ 13.25 £ 0.28 per cocktail, makes 46.5

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Review:

Cognac with apple notes and a touch of herbal complexity by way of dry vermouth.

History:

Created in 2008 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room in London, England, originally to celebrate the Future 500 initiative - quingenti is Latin for five-hundred.

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Nutrition:

213 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
24.57% alc./vol. (49.14° proof)
24 grams of pure alcohol

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