State of Mind
Style is personal. So why should your cocktail try to copy somebody else’s?
I teamed up with my friends at Ralph Lauren Fragrances to build a cocktail around their Ralph’s Club New York Parfum, and the fragrance did most of the talking. Black currant, cognac, oud wood. That’s basically a drink order.
So we built a Manhattan style sipper with cognac as the base, swapped the sweet vermouth for creme de cassis and a touch of dry vermouth, added a barspoon of absinthe and a few dashes of bitters, then finished it with an expressed lemon twist for brightness. Given the NY roots on this bottle, I’m calling it The State of Mind.
Cheers, y’all!
ingredients:
2 oz | 60 ml Cognac
½ oz | 15 ml Crème de Cassis
¼ oz | 7.5 ml Dry Vermouth
1 Barspoon | 8 ml Absinthe
3 dashes Tobacco Bitters
3 dashes Angostura Bitters
Lemon Twist Garnish
Absinthe Rinse
instructions:
Combine cognac, crème de cassis, dry vermouth, bitters, and absinthe in a mixing glass. Fill with ice and stir well for 15 to 20 seconds until the outside of the glass is frosty. Rinse a stemmed rocks glass with vermouth and strain cocktail over a large cube while expressing a lemon twist then garnish.
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