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Charlie Pie

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (14)
Charlie Pie image
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
1 1⁄3 fl oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1⁄3 fl oz Italian red bitter liqueur
1⁄6 fl oz Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)
2 drop Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

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How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

  1. EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
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Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Charlie Pie contains 157 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.3 standard drinks
  • 22.02% alc./vol. (44.04° proof)
  • 18.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

Adapted from a recipe in the 1929 book Cocktails de Paris with the signature beneath attributing its creation to Lucien Gaudin.

Gaudin, an Olympic gold medal-winning French fencer, was a regular customer at a Parian bar called the Le Chevel Pie where a bartender named Charlie created a competition-winning cocktail named Lucien Gaudin in honour of his sporting customer. (Also recorded in Cocktails de Paris). It's surmised that Lucien Gaudin named this cocktail in humorous tribute to 'Charlie', that bartender at Le Chevel Pie.


Charlie Pie
1/2 Gordon Gin
3/8 Vermouth italien
1/8 Campari

Cocktails de Paris, 1929

Review

A small and elegant Negroni variation, served straight-up which benefits from a splash more than dilution than stirring with good ice delivers.

Variations/similar cocktails

Negroni variations and riffs

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Comments & Discussion

Simon Sedgley Premium Member
A Negroni is a Negroni...love it or leave it. We love it. This cocktail strikes us as a misguided concession to someone who probably wants to be sipping something else.
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
Surely the point is that this arose independently and that great minds think alike… it’s great variation on the ingredient combination imo. Negroni is popular in significant part to the ease of remembering the recipe, rather than it being the ideal balance of flavours. And the bijou size here creates a different way of thinking about the same materials. Having said all that and finished that drink, I now feel like a negroni 😜. I quite like 45, 22.5, 30 recipe suffrage by one of the other DDDs (Diffords Discerning Drinkers), whose name sadly escaped me. Cheers!
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
*suggested
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
A couple of drops of chocolate bitters also worked really well here, especially as my sweet vermouth was slightly past its best. Worked beautifully with the saline.
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
… heading into Jaffa territory..
score: 1
Fredrik Rosin
Chocolate bitters, is that the same as mole bitters? And would it be possible to diy it by adding cacao nibs to a regular Angostura bitters?
score: 0
Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member
Chocolate bitters are different to mole bitters but I'd use mole bitters in preference to cacao nibs and Angostura.
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
I used bob’s chocolate bitters. Well worth the investment in my opinion. Really excellent stuff - add a beautiful touch to many cocktails.
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
My new favourite negroni. Already made it several times via the Early access feature. Tried various combinations including split cocchi vermouth Di Torino and dopo Teatro. Very very tasty indeed. Love the hint of saline too.
score: 1
John CARR Premium Member
As someone who’s only a moderate campari lover, this really works, and is relatively light and approachable but very tasty.
score: 1

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