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Cantinflas
This Agave spirit-forward, bittersweet cocktail is a pleasing digestivo or late-night sipper
Simon Sedgley
17th December 2025 at 11:00
We found this to be a bit sharp at first sip...perhaps from the Grand Marnier. So we took it slowly and, as it warmed and integrated, it mellowed very nicely. We tried it with Triple Sec in place of the Grand Marnier...more approachable but less complex for us.
13th December 2025 at 01:23
I'm interested to know where the name of this cocktail derives from.
Is it from the Mexican acrobat/actor Cantinflas who is probably most famous in the English-speaking world for his appearance as Passepartout opposite David Niven in Around The World In 80 Days (1956 - jeeps, it's older than I am!)?
Which could lead on to the other cocktail, Cantinflas Moustache...although in the closing credits Niven was represented as a clockface, Cantinflas as a Penny Farthing and, I think, Robert Newton's Detective Inspector Fix by a moustache...
Is it from the Mexican acrobat/actor Cantinflas who is probably most famous in the English-speaking world for his appearance as Passepartout opposite David Niven in Around The World In 80 Days (1956 - jeeps, it's older than I am!)?
Which could lead on to the other cocktail, Cantinflas Moustache...although in the closing credits Niven was represented as a clockface, Cantinflas as a Penny Farthing and, I think, Robert Newton's Detective Inspector Fix by a moustache...