Île Saint-Honorat
Île Saint-Honorat is a small island off the Southern Coast of France. It’s divine, just like this cocktail. A difficult to find version of a Bobby Burns with rum in place of Scotch.
Île Saint-Honorat is a small island off the Southern Coast of France. It’s divine, just like this cocktail. A difficult to find version of a Bobby Burns with rum in place of Scotch.
It’s amazing how changing out one, simple ingredient, even one that’s not a vastly different ingredient, can change the makeup of a cocktail. Here we see a microcosm of this in two cocktails.
Vermouth is an irrevocable member of the old guard cocktails. Cocktails like the Bradford, Manhattan and Rob Roy effectively changed out the spirit. But what about Applejack?
The Manhattan Cocktail adheres to a new standard these days. We explore the impact of two different vermouths on its flavor.
It’s the Manhattan Olympics! Gold, Silver and Bronze are at stake and we needed to try all the recipes to decide the victor. I took a night for some due diligence and practiced my Manhattan techniques.