Delmonico
A short, spirit-forward stir-style sour-free sipper built on gin, with cognac adding body and two vermouths bringing dry and sweet balance. Angostura gives it a spiced bitterness and the lemon twist a bright citrus-oil finish.
Similar names: Delmonico Special
The Delmonico Cocktail is named after the restaurant Delmonico's, which no longer stands, and it is rarely found in modern cocktail books. It is missing from Boothby's American Bar-tender (1891) and Kappeler's Modern American Drinks (1895), but The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book (1935) lists it as orange bitters with equal parts French vermouth and Plymouth gin and two slices of orange peel, crediting the bar at Old Delmonico's. David Wondrich dates the vermouth-based drink to around 1876 and suggests it was created at Delmonico's Madison Square location.
Ingredients
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- Chill a coupe.
- Add the gin, cognac, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth and Angostura bitters to a shaker with ice.
- Shake until well chilled.
- Strain into the chilled coupe.
- Express the lemon twist over the drink and use it as garnish.