Piglet's Lament

Name: Piglet's Lament
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 1 twst Grapefruit Peel; 8 ml St-Germain; 15 ml Campari; 30 ml Sweet Vermouth; 8 ml Cynar

A stirred, bitter drink of gin, Campari, sweet vermouth and Cynar, softened with a little St-Germain and finished with grapefruit peel. Created by Fred Yarm in 2017.

Fred Yarm developed Piglet's Lament at Loyal Nine in Cambridge in 2017, while looking for a Negroni riff to serve at a wedding there. It draws on Eeyore's Requiem but keeps equal parts gin, vermouth and liqueur, so that Campari does not dominate as it does in Toby Maloney's version. The name continues the Winnie the Pooh theme and echoes Piglet's remark that bravery is hard for a small animal.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Hard

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal