Czarina

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Discerning Drinkers (10 ratings)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

ZigZag Coupe

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist (expressed & discarded) & dried apricot half on rim

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz Ketel One Vodka
1 fl oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
3/4 fl oz Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
1/2 fl oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
2 dash Boker's bitters
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Review:

Vodka-laced apricot with vermouth contributing herbal complexity.

History:

The Czarina cocktail is first mentioned in the "supplementary list" of cocktails in William James "Billy" Tarling's 1937 Café Royal Bar Book. Sadly, as he says in the book, "space forbids giving the recipes," so all we know is that a cocktail of that name was being made in 1937.

A recipe for the Czarina first appears in the 1943 book Cocktail Digest by Oscar Haimo of the Hotel Pierre in New York City, and then in Lucius Beebe's 1946 The Stork Club Bar Book.

CZARINA COCKTAIL
1 oz. Vodka
¾ oz. Apricot Brandy
½ oz. French Vermouth
½ oz. Italian Vermouth
Shake.

Oscar Haimo, Cocktail-Digest, 1943

Czarina:
1 oz. Vodka
¾ oz. apricot brandy
½ oz. French vermouth
½ oz. Italian vermouth
Shake and serve in 3 oz. cocktail glass.

Lucius Beebe, 1946

Nutrition:

One serving of Czarina contains 167 calories.

Alcohol content:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 23.08% alc./vol. (46.16° proof)
  • 22.6 grams of pure alcohol
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