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Napoleon

Name: Napoleon
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 15 ml Red quinquina e.g. Dubonnet, Byrrh; 7.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Dubonnet, Byrrh etc. rouge light quinquina
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Napoleon contains 155 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
28.27% alc./vol. (56.55° proof)
22.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

NAPOLEON COCKTAIL.
1 Dash Fernet Branca.
1 Dash Curaçao.
1 Dash Dubonnet.
1 Glass Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Review

Rust-coloured, spirituous and bittersweet with assertive fernet herbal notes. Good as an aperitivo but brilliant as a digestivo.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Dubonnet Red 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
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Fernet Branca 375ml - makes 50 cocktails
$19.99 $0.40 per cocktail Fernet Branca image

Cointreau L'Unique 375ml - makes 50 cocktails
$21.99 $0.44 per cocktail Cointreau L'Unique image

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Comments & Discussion

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 3y

For those like me who find Fernet-Branca cocktails on the bitter side, I found that a drop of 20% saline helped here. It toned the bitterness down without otherwise taking away from the overall flavour profile.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 3y

Thanks, Tuber. Agreed! I've added 2 drops of saline to the recipe.

John Hinojos Premium Member 4y

Good as an aperitif. Fernet add a unique touch of herbal and spicy.

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