safe to say, El Presidente is my favourite cocktail ever made, and these specs solidified that. not really a fan of Martini's vermouths though, so i swapped those for Bramley & Gage, seeing as their distillery's fairly local to me

Wow. Pretty much the perfect cocktail. With the bitters (and possibly grenadine depending on your sugar ratio) being able to be applied to taste it can be tailored to pre dinner, after dinner or for any other time.

Truly amazing.

Wow, rum and vermouth, who would have thought. Didn't have any bianco (obviously my extensive drinks cabinet doesn't run as far as Mark Shah's:) so used a rather aged chardonnay, also orange bitters. Very nice complex drink with lovely orange overtones,

5+ for me with a Doorly's 3 year, Noilly Prat Dry, La Quintenye Blanc and 1757 Rosso. Swapping the Noilly for a Dolin Dry took it down to a 4.5 - lost a lot of roundness.

I seem to remember getting an even better combo by splitting the base with something like 7.5ml of Eldorado 8, but I'll have to try it again to confirm.

Would love to try a lighter rum, used a small batch aged rum. Orange twist highlight essential

Seven ingredients...almost a Tiki drink in complexity. Lots of of aromatics between the vermouths and the orange flavors. Very nice.

An excellent rendition of this drink, distinctly orange and I love the vermouth combination. I added a dash of orange bitters. Without gold rum I used 1 oz white rum and 1/2 oz black seal rum.

Great aperitif cocktail. Perfect for an after 5 pick-up. We used Clemente Creole Shrub instead of the curacao. We have both, but I prefer the Creole Shrub with many rum drinks as it has the same base ingredient.