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The Manhattan Transfer

Instructions

Stir, strain, up, twist.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Phil Ward, NYC.
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Average rating
4 stars
(27 ratings)
From other users
  • This drink is a really great way to highlight ramazzotti. Very good!
  • A fav of mine from the D&Co book. — ★★★★
  • Four and a half if I could--quite good. Appealing finish. — ★★★★
  • Perfectly okay Manhattan substitute. Not as interesting as a Boulevardier, or a Manhattan itself.
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lesliec commented on 11/17/2015:

One of my favourites from the D&C book (which omits the lemon, but both versions are good).


Uffizi

1 1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
2 oz Grapefruit juice (white)
1 pn Salt (kosher, for rim)
1 wdg Grapefruit (for rim)
Instructions

Moisten the rim of a rocks glass with grapefruit wedge and coat with salt. Build the rest of the ingredients in the glass over cracked ice and stir.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Will Thompson, Drink, Boston, MA.
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Average rating
4.5 stars
(9 ratings)
From other users
  • Lovely little medium weight drink...
  • Made with red grapefruit juice because that's what I had. Very tasty and light. Would like to return to this with white. — ★★★★★
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sgriesbach commented on 9/23/2024:

I substituted LoFi Gentian amaro for Bonal, and used equal parts of each. Yum


Pineau Cobbler

4 cube Cantaloupe (1" each)
1⁄2 wdg Orange (1/2 orange wheel)
Instructions

Lightly muddle, shake with crushed ice, pour without straining into a wine glass and serve with a cocktail pick for spearing cantaloupe chunks.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Will Thompson, Drink, Boston, MA.
Source reference

Food & Wine's Cocktails 2013.

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Gin Basil Julep

2 oz Gin
1 t Sugar (superfine, or 1/4 oz 50 brix simple syrup)
2 spg Basil (slapped, one muddled and one as garnish)
Instructions

Build in julep glass over crushed ice, churn with barspoon, top with more crushed ice and a sprig of basil.

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Creator
Andrew Willet, Elemental Mixology.
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Gingerbread Man

2 oz Rum, Banks 7
3⁄4 oz Ginger liqueur, King's Ginger
1⁄2 oz Molasses syrup (1:1)
1 bsp Bitters, Dale DeGroff's Pimento Bitters
1 pn Cinnamon (as garnish)
Instructions

Dry shake, shake, strain, up, garnish.

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Year
2012
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Jim Meehan, PDT, NYC.
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4 stars
(1 rating)
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Forbidden Fruit #2

1 oz Gin
1 oz Dry white wine, Sauvignon blanc
1⁄2 oz Lime juice
1⁄2 oz Agave syrup
Instructions

Shake with ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass

History

Re "forbidden fruit" of Barbados: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Curator rating
Not yet rated
Average rating
4 stars
(4 ratings)
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Christmas in Prison

1⁄2 oz Virgin Islands Rum, Cruzan Blackstrap
1⁄4 oz Cinnamon syrup
1⁄8 oz Maple syrup
1 twst Orange peel (expressed and inserted.)
Instructions

Stir, strain, rocks, twist.

Notes

Lots of autumn cocktails use these flavors. This one makes really, really good use of them. Superbly spicy and balanced, sweetish but warming.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Creator
Tim Miner, The JakeWalk, Brooklyn, NY.
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aphonik commented on 12/09/2013:

An added detail: this cocktail was created by Tim Miner. I posted the photo on Instagram and he replied that this was the last drink he put on the menu at the Jakewalk before leaving to tend bar at the newly opened Long Island Bar on Atlantic Ave. Incidentally a must-stop for my next visit to Brooklyn.


DrunkLab commented on 12/09/2013:

Detail added. Long Island Bar is Toby Cecchini's new project, which would make it a must-stop even if Tim Miner's drink weren't so good. Incidentally, Eric, can I put your picture of the drink up on KC?


aphonik commented on 12/09/2013:

Absolutely, I was going to suggest using my photo but didn't want to get all up in your business. (Also, not to get further up in your business but I just took a glance at the recipe card in my wallet and it says maple syrup and not liqueur. Sorry for my constant nitpicking corrections.) I hadn't heard of the Long Island Bar until Tim mentioned it to me, but the funny thing is I was staying with my friend on Atlantic Avenue exactly one block up from the bar on the next corner. Next time I'm (we're?) totally going there.



applejack commented on 1/02/2020:

I really liked this; made with ingredients as specified except subbing in St. George aged apple brandy for the Laird's.  I wholly agree with the poster's description, it's very balanced with a nice holiday spice backbone to it.  And I found a use for those damn Bittermens New England Spiced Cranberry bitters that have been at the back of the bitters shelf for what seems like an eternity.  Oh, and the video link isn't available any longer.


Full Windsor

3⁄4 oz Gin
3⁄4 oz Campari
3⁄4 oz Aromatized wine, Cocchi Americano
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice
1⁄2 oz Mint syrup
2 oz Champagne
1 spg Mint (as garnish)
Instructions

Shake, strain over rocks and Champagne, garnish with mint sprig and floated fruit.

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Year
2013
Authenticity
Your original creation
Creator
Rafa García Febles, NYC.
Curator rating
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Average rating
4.5 stars
(6 ratings)
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Bronx Bomber

1 1⁄2 oz Gin, Plymouth
1⁄4 oz Sweet vermouth (Italian)
1⁄4 oz Dry vermouth (French)
1⁄2 oz Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄4 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄4 oz Simple syrup (home-made)
1 twst Orange peel
Instructions

Combine liquid ingredients in cocktail shaker with crushed ice. Shake vigorously and strain into chilled cocktail glass.

History

Vintage, prohibition-era cocktail.

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Year
1920?
Authenticity
Authentic recipe
Source reference

The Art of the Bar (2006), Jeff Hollinger, Rob Schwartz, modified from Old Waldorf -Astoria Bar Book, A.S. Crockett, 1935

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Average rating
4 stars
(23 ratings)
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  • Bem verão.
  • Antica Formula, Noilly Prat, Tanqueray is OK, Bombay Sapphire might be better.
  • One of my favorites
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Fair & Warmer

1 1⁄2 oz Añejo rum
1⁄2 oz Aromatized wine, Lillet Rouge (or Dolin sweet vermouth)
1⁄2 oz Curaçao
1 twst Orange peel
Instructions

Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled mixing glass. Stir and strain into a chilled coupe. Express the oils from the orange twist over the finished drink and garnish with the peel.

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Creator
Anu Apte, Rob Roy, Seattle
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4 stars
(10 ratings)
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  • I made this with Brugal anejo, Pierre Ferrand dry curaçao, and I subbed in Punt e yes for the Lillet rouge. This cocktail really brought out the flavor of the barrel for me.
  • Faked the Lillet with half Martini Rosso and half Cocchi Americano. Kinda sweet, kinda unexciting. I can see maybe the reproportioning suggested in the comment being worth trying.
  • I make 2oz rum, 1oz vermouth, 1/4oz cointreau. I think it's a better drier balance this way.
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noksagt commented on 12/28/2022:

This cocktail appears in the Hugo Ensslin's Recipes for Mixed Drinks (1917) with a mere two dashes of curacao. I prefer this drier "rum manhattan with a bit of orange" approach.


yarm commented on 12/29/2022:

My build is closer to 2 oz aged rum, 1 oz sweet vermouth, 1/8 oz (1 tsp) dry curaçao. Not sure where the Lillet Rouge came in, but a little bitter complexity from a quinquina or perhaps a split of sweet vermouth & Punt e Mes would do no harm (but it's not the classic way).