Name: Comte de Sureau
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 25 ml Elderflower liqueur; 7.5 ml Red bitter liqueur

Comte de Sureau
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Photographed in an UB Koto Old Fashioned 30cl

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
⁵⁄₆ oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
Prepare garnish of orange & lemon zest twists.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).
EXPRESS orange and lemon zests over cocktail and then use both to garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Sprays of oils from both orange and lemon zest twists aid the fine balance of this bittersweet aperitivo, which fittingly has become known by many as an Elderflower Negroni.

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AKA: Elderflower Negroni

Variant:

Caneflower

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2007/8 by Gonçalo de Sousa Monteiro at Le Lion in Hamburg, Germany.

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Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
25.82% alc./vol. (25.82° proof)
20 grams of pure alcohol

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Jimmy Caps

2nd June at 18:57

Love this drink. It is spring time in a glass.

L L

16th May at 21:16

For me, perfection in a glass! My advice, let it dilute a little. Just gorgeous.

Tom Harding

16th May at 18:46

I love this. The three flavours all blend really well, but you can still taste all three individually as well. The sweet bitter balance makes me feel so sophisticated! Beautiful colour too.

Helge Syversen

15th April at 16:08

This cocktail I made with Scandinavian ingridienses. From Sweden:" All about Gin". From Denmark "Ellenor elderflower liqueur "From Finland " Bitter Rosita" I skipped the Norwegian aquavit .
All together it worked gooood.

Bonney Cahalan

22nd March at 22:20

Quite Tasty!
My new "Go To" Negroni I must say

Annechien

14th February at 15:08

This is a beautiful cocktail. The smell is amazing and the bitter aftertaste keeps it from getting overly sweet. I used sipsmith gin and I can clearly taste it behind the elderflower. The colour is very pretty too. This is going into my current favourites. Will definitely make this again.

Matthew Mason

5th February at 10:29

One of my absolute favourites.

Becca Skinner

2nd February at 23:06

this is very nice!! measured precisely and it is very pleasant, at first taste it is sweet but the bitter follows nicely...

Gustavo Quiros

29th January at 06:45

First try I thought it was a bit too sweet. Second try I just added 3/4 oz of St. Germain and it hit all my right spots. Besides that amazing cocktail

David Kennedy

4th May at 22:36

Too sweet for me too. Will try adding less St. Germaine next time.

Karl M

7th July 2024 at 11:59

I made it with Ukiyo Japanese Yuzu Gin and was surprisingly pleased. The Yuzu and Elderflower works well together and they muted the Campari flavor while still leaving a slight bitterness.