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Boulevardier No. 2

Delicately bittersweet with wine red wine notes and herbal complexity. (For the rouge quinquina, I used Raphaël, as per the original recipe.)
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Werd Bmocsil’s Avatar Werd Bmocsil
6th September 2025 at 16:11
Out here in the frontier colonies (New York), quinquina is nearly unknown. Would Violet Freres Byrrh Grand Quinquina be a reasonable substitution?
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
6th September 2025 at 16:52
I've just made with Byrrh Grand Quinquina and slightly fruitier but very tasty. I'm going to have to order a bunch of rouge quinquina to try all side by side.
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Chris Brislawn’s Avatar Chris Brislawn
6th September 2025 at 02:44
Another exercise in substitutions. Substituting Lillet Rouge for Dubonnet was easy enough, but I was initially stumped by the St. Raphael, which I've never seen. Decided to go with Tempus Fugit Kina L'Aero d'Or and therefore replaced the Campari with Tempus Fugit Gran Classico Bitter. A great drink that actually tastes like a Negroni/Boulevardier variation despite having only a red bitter in common. So why isn't it named something more fitting like, say, the "Boulevardier `a Carne"?
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