Name: Parmenides
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Cognac (brandy); 10 ml Chartreuse Green; 20 ml Chardonnay wine; 20 ml Lemon juice; 20 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 4 dash Absinthe

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz

Cognac (brandy)

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)

²⁄₃ fl oz

Chardonnay (Chablis) white wine

²⁄₃ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

²⁄₃ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

4 dash

La Fée Parisienne absinthe

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Parmenides contains 214 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.36% alc./vol. (32.71° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Chardonnay (Chablis) white wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Comments & Discussion

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Matthew McHale 22w

The directions suggest serving it in an ice-filled glass, but the picture doesn't have ice, and it's served coupe glass, and also says it's served straight up... so I assume the ice filled glass is a mistake.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Except that 'natural philosophy' is what we called science before we called it that. And Parmenides was all about, not natural philosophy but, ontology, the philosophy of being. But, as I say, lovely cocktail.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

A delicious cocktail but surely there's a better way to achieve the desired sweetness other than by the slosh of 20ml rich sugar syrup? I'm thinking of my great aunt Mafeking and her diabetes. We hauled the syrup back to 10ml.

Avery Garnett 3y

Used a sweeter chartreuse substitute (Boomsma Kloosterbitter) and dialed the simple back to 15ml. Deliciously complex and flows wonderfully from the cognac to the chardonnay to the chartreuse to the absinthe.

A little sweet; I think I'd go for 10ml simple tops next time.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 3y

Made again but this time swapped the cognac for a barrel aged chilean pisco (Alto Del Carmen) and L.N.Mattei Cap Corse Quinquina aromatized wine for the Chardonnay and cut back on the syrup. Perhaps a different beast but quite nice!

Richard Christmas 3y

Had to substitute 5 ml. Sambuco for the Absinthe, and failed to reduce the syrup to compensate, but still very impressive indeed. How the Chartreuse shines through!

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Delightfully tart. Very flavourful anytime cocktail. Perfectly balanced with the hints of herbal from the Chartreuse and the absinthe.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 4y

Wonderful subtle complexity. The absinthe sits well with the Green Chartreuse. Neither dominate. I used a California Gewurztraminer (Fetzer) which added a tiny spicy flavour. Another favorite.