Name: Monte Cassino
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Whisk(e)y - Rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.); 22.5 ml Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur; 22.5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 22.5 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 10 ml Chilled water (omit if wet ice)

Serve in

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

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

3/4 fl oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof / 50% alc./vol.)
3/4 fl oz	Bénédictine D.O.M. liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Chilled water (omit if wet ice)
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Review:

The robust flavours of rye combine harmoniously with the other ingredients in this riff on the classic Last Word.

Variant:

Served straight-up or on-the-rocks.
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History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2010 by Damon Dyer at Louis 649, New York City. Damon won the Bénédictine 500th Anniversary Cocktail Competition with this drink.

Named after Monte Cassino, a rocky hill 80 miles southeast of Rome, Italy which is best-known for its historic monastery, built on the site where St. Benedict of Nursia established the Benedictine Order circa 529. The hilltop abbey was destroyed by Allied bombing during the World War II but was subsequently rebuilt and reconsecrated in 1964 by Pope Paul VI.

Visit our Last Word cocktail page for the history and variants of this drink.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.59% alc./vol. (47.18° proof)
23.6 grams of pure alcohol

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