Haiti Cocktail (Elvezio Grassi)

Name: Haiti Cocktail (Elvezio Grassi)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 dash Angostura Bitters; 23 ml Amaro; 1 twst Lemon; 8 ml Campari; 23 ml Dry Vermouth; 15 ml Sweet Vermouth; 23 ml Demerara Rum

A stirred, bitter-leaning mix of demerara rum, amaro and two vermouths, sharpened with Campari and Angostura and finished with a lemon twist. Dates from 1936.

Similar names: The Haiti Cocktail

The Haiti Cocktail first appeared in L'Heure du Cocktail in 1929, made with gin, Byrrh and cassis. A different version, with Vermouth Torino, Campari, Ferro China Bisleri, Demerara rum, dry vermouth and Angostura bitters, shaken and garnished with lemon peel, appears in Elvezio Grassi's 1936 cocktail collection. The recipe here is a slightly adapted take on that one.

Method

Stirred

Glass

cocktail

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal