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A Spontaneous Libation for your Consideration

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Created and posted by yarm.
1 1⁄2 oz Scotch
3⁄4 oz Port (Tawny or Ruby)
3⁄8 oz Zucca (Or Sfumato)
3⁄8 oz Campari
2 ds Orange bitters
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail coupe, and garnish with a lemon twist.

Notes

Originally made 1.5 / .5 / .5 / .5 which was delightfully bitter. I figured that upping the port and/or decreasing the amari would make it agreeable to more people. My other recipe idea was 2 / .5 / .25 / .25 which would make for a drier drink.

History

I had been thinking about how well Campari and rabarbaro (such as Zucca and Sfumato) can join forces to make a complex bitter. Since Scotch and rabarbaro pair so well in drinks like the Caustic Negroni, I began to think about classic whisky cocktails and ended up on the port-containing Chancellor from the 1956 Esquire Drink book. With Phil Ward's Baltasar and Blimunda (a Negroni of sorts with port) in mind, I altered the Chancellor to include these two amari. For a name, I kept with the academic theme that runs in Chancellor-like drinks.

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  • Re Mercy Brown, 1 hour 41 minutes ago zebraqw commented:

    Used Cointreau. Loose the simple.

  • Re Campfire Sour, 2 days ago hypoxic_ commented:

    Its got promise, but agree that the Sfumato dominates a bit too much. Maybe try using less and more of everything else.

  • Re Atta Girl, 3 days ago drinkingandthinking commented:

    This was a "whoa!" after first swallow. I used Cocchi di Torino which probably did a lot to change it, but my grenadine was made with pomegranate syrup so it was a bit tannic and I think that balanced it out a bit. It was good nevertheless.

  • Re Asylum, 3 days ago drinkingandthinking commented:

    This is interesting, but I made it 1 1/2 gin, 3/4 herbsaint, 1 bsp grenadine and dash of orange bitters. Otherwise I found it basically a licorice martini. My approach softens it, but I wonder if old tom would work better.

  • Re The Mary Pickford, 3 days ago drinkingandthinking commented:

    This is actually pretty great if you up the maraschino to 1/4 and 1/2 grenadine if you use tart homemade grenadine (made mine with pomegranate syrup).