Name: Caneflower cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cachaça (unaged); 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 15 ml Elderflower liqueur

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cachaça (unaged)

³⁄₄ fl oz

Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Elderflower liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
22.41% alc./vol. (44.81° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2009 by Jeffrey Morgenthaler in Portland, Oregon, USA. Jeff's original recipe calls for a "generous twist of lemon" rather than orange. On JeffreyMorgenthaler.com, he says this cocktail was "Inspired in part by a gorgeous cocktail created by my good friend Gonçalo de Souza Monteiro, the Comte de Sureau."

Comments & Discussion

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Caitlin Eisner Premium Member 45w

Genuinely the best use of cachaça I've ever tasted, even more than caipirinhas. Well done to whomever made this.

Sarah R 1y

No, just no. Too much elderflower liquor. Overly floral and not pleasant to drink

Garth Stanish 1y

As noted by others, defintely on the sweeter side and I think the elderflower gets a bit lost ( I was using the gorgeous no8 distillery elderflower liqueur) but for all that, a pleasant drink.

Shara Dale 1y

This is infinitely better when the juice of half a lime is added.
Prior to adding the lime, it was overpoweringly sweet and bitter, and difficult to discern any specific ingredient other than the Cachaça.
Once the lime was added the flavours really opened up, and the Elderflower and Aperol were no longer overpowered.
It went from being an absolute slog to drink, to one of my favourites.

Kathryn Foyster 1y

Thanks for the tip with the lime - tried without and although I quite liked it, definitely on the sweet side. Lovely with the lime added. :o)

Justine Fehley Premium Member 2y

Accidentally made this reversed proportions of Aperol and elderflower, but still turned out pretty great. Will have to try again with the original recipe.

Jeff Newcastle 2y

Followed recipe to the letter and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a sweet drink but didn’t spoil my enjoyment. (In fact I’m probably going to make another one right now) Looking forward to trying the Comte de Sureau next.

Ian Lessels Premium Member 3y

I took my first sip with some trepidation. I really wasn't sure how those varied ingredients were going to work but it's a terrific cocktail

Avery Garnett 3y

Went with 1 dash orange bitters as I like a sweeter drink but wanted to try to balance it a little. Very tasty.

Wes O'Morrow 3y

This drink is sweet but lovely, much better than I expected (used Capucana Cachaça and Luxardo Aperitivo). I tried with lemon bitters as well, and that helped balance the drink (also tried a lemon twist but the aroma was not as good as with the orange twist)

Kjell Eriksson Premium Member 5y

I’m just now sipping this drink, and thought I’d rate it because it wasn’t all to my liking. And I found that I had already done that! And I gave it a 4! I had to revise that down to 3.5, it’s too sweet for my palate. Next time I will follow some useful suggestions below from fellow discerning drinkers and add a touch of lime or lemon juice, and maybe cut the elderflower a little. And perhaps go for Campari instead of Aperol. We’ll see. Trial and error, eh?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Perhaps also worth checking the sweet to dry scale above. 5 is heading towards being on the sweet side. I applied this, along with the gentle to boozy scale, on most cocktails now and I'm adding to the ones it's missing on as part of my program of remaking all old recipes to check. I now also check comments before making a cocktail as so useful. Many thanks for commenting!