Name: Don Pone
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2.5 ml Maraschino liqueur; 45 ml Cognac (brandy); 15 ml White crème de cacao; 10 ml Ginger liqueur

Ingredients

1/12 fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

1 1/2 fl oz

Cognac (brandy)

1/2 fl oz

Giffard White Crème de Cacao Liqueur

1/3 fl oz

Ginger liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of skewered crystallised ginger and grated dark chocolate.

Method

RINSE glass with maraschino liqueur (swirl around to coat and discard excess) and set to one side.

STIR other ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into maraschino rinsed glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered crystallised ginger and dust with grated dark chocolate.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
26.88% alc./vol. (53.76° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Ruth Harvey Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 month ago

It was my second cocktail of the evening - on a "school night" - so I decided to make a half portion. Slightly tipsy and a bit tired I got into a "right muddle"! Added the ginger liquor twice so had to compensate with the other ingredients
Ended up adding bits of this and that until I had an enormous - but delicious - cocktail! Might have to bunk off tomorrow 😜

Tim Cull Commenter Appreciated Commenter 5 months ago

I expected to kinda like this but not necessarily love it. I was wrong. I LOVE IT.

I went ever so slightly lighter than suggested with the ginger and I think that was a good bet.

Loz Horner Commenter Appreciated Commenter 8 months ago

Very good. Went slightly too big on the ginger having misread the ingredients but it mattered not. In fact if you like strong ginger in your chocolate I can recommend it.

Justin Aniello Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

The wash of maraschino works perfectly with the ginger, nice pop of chocolate on the swallow. Cognac dominates the front but nothing wrong with that. Thought it good but not amazing at first, once it warmed a little it was much improved.

Mark Messingham Conversation Starter 1 year ago

I enjoyed this very much, a nicely balanced sipper……….very spiced when eating the crystallised ginger. Yum.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

The combination of ginger and chocolate is really nice. Certainly a combination that should be used more often in cocktails.

Louise Allen Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

I tipped the (slightly generous) rinse of maraschino into the drink. It's a very tasty beverage, I was suspicious at the lack of sour but it really doesn't need it. it's very nicely balanced albeit a bit sweeter than I'd usually go for (but see note above that is the likely cause). Now I need to buy more cognac as I made this to use up a bottle.

Sabine Cocktail Club Appreciated Commenter Conversation Starter 2 years ago

Did this recipe change? I have no memory of adding maraschino as a wash a few years ago! At any rate, delicious.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

The recipe looks to be the same as in my notes when I first added it to Difford's Guide on 26/Apr/16.

John Hinojos Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 3 years ago

What an excellent evening sipper. I would have never thought to put all of these ingredients together, but they blend so perfectly. The cognac adds the base and the rest enhance with their own flavours.