Name: Warday's Cocktail
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack; 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino); 5 ml Chartreuse Green

Serve in

Coupe glass

Photographed in

UB Retro Coupe 1920 7.75oz

Garnish:

Lemon (or orange) zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 fl oz	Gin
1 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

Apple brandy with complex botanical influences from both gin and Chartreuse mellowed by botanically enriched fortified wine. If you like spirit-forward cocktails, then this Yale Fence on monastic steroids takes some beating.

Variant:

Yale Fence

History:

An exhumed classic recommended to us by Jason E. Clapham who says "the war of the name rhymes with bar, at one time as a slang word for working day.

This cocktail notably features in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

WARDAY'S COCKTAIL.
1 Teaspoon Chartreuse.
1/3 Italian Vermouth.
1/3 Dry Gin.
1/3 Calavdos or Apple Brandy.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

198 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
26.9% alc./vol. (53.8° proof)
25.6 grams of pure alcohol

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