Fly Like a Butterfly

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (17 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
12 oz Dubonnet/French rouge aromatised wine
12 oz Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10

Review:

This light, aromatic, sweet and sour beauty has a grown-up, quinine-rich flavour but lacks the 'sting like a bee' finish.

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History:

Created by yours truly, this is my take on a classic cocktail called a 'Lovely Butterfly' made with the same ingredients.

Nutrition:

One serving of Fly Like a Butterfly contains 100 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 0.7 standard drinks
  • 10.15% alc./vol. (10.15° proof)
  • 9.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Jack Reid’s Avatar Jack Reid
23rd February 2022 at 05:33
This is a really interesting drink. It has an unusual taste. I don't mean that negatively, I mean that it doesn't really taste like anything else. It is very nicely balanced and it's not a large drink--several of them could easily go down very rapidly.

I do have to say mine did not look great at all--it was a muddy brown colour. But that was probably because I was finishing off a bottle of Martini Rosso that had been in fridge a bit longer than recommended.