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I recently tried this with TCRL High Seas (a Panama-Jamaica-Martinique blend with light aging) and an amber vermouth (the M&R ambrato or Rockwell's native amber). Worked great and gives some of that feeling of blended vermouths without multiple bottles...

This new version is a massive improvement on what was an already awesome cocktail. Wow

Any reason for the new changes, Simon? Just curious about your opinion - was the blending of the various vermouths just overcomplicating? (As much as I enjoy using Cocchi Storico in mine)

Hello Simon, it seems like the recipe has changed yet again. Could you please put in the previous recipe (the one with all 3 main kinds of vermouth)?

An incredible all-timer of a cocktail. My personal spin prefers using 1 oz Plantation Grande Reserve, 1/2 oz Smith & Cross, 2/3 oz Cocchi Storico (and leave out the Bianco, having its ratio filled by the Cocchi Storico), and keeping the rest of the recipe list intact with the 2/3 oz Dolin Dry and 1/3 oz Curaçao, with grenadine and bitters to taste.

I find a homemade grenadine (with the proper hits of orange blossom water) really makes this punch above-weight as well.

Adapting from some other recipes I found online, I substituted 1/2 oz dry vermouth, 1/2 oz Cocchi Storico, 2 dashes Regan's orange bitters, and increased the (real) grenadine to 1/6 oz, and it was delicious!

Is El Presidente a Cuban response for the Martinez or Manhattan? Bartenders talk about it many times

How did you get your cocktail in the photo so red? With just 2.5ml of grenadine and 5ml of Cocchi - mine barely had a tinge of pink