The Bird Is The Word No. 2
Recipe:
- 22.5ml Grappa di Moscato
- 22.5ml Chartreuse Verte
- 15ml maraschino liqueur
- 15ml fresh lime juice
- 4-5 drops chocolate bitters
Shake everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, fine strain into a prechilled cocktail glass, garnish with a maraschino cherry.
There's always that sort of first-time drink where you're not quite sure after the first taste. Not sure if it's really good or a bit strange in the negative sense. This one falls into that category too, the combination of this very specific grappa note, herbs, lime and then especially the subtle cocoa note is too unusual at first.
But I liked it better with each sip, there is much to discover taste-wise, it seems slightly exotic. The grappa works more like a silk mantle around the Chartreuse, rather than two equal waves breaking each other, as in the classic Last Word example with gin. Complex, not for everyone, but a very nice grappa drink to start discovering the spirit category, or the other way around something completely different for fans of green Chartreuse.
Unfortunately, it will not be as beautiful green as a perfect Last Word, thanks to the quite important, brown bitters. So he is a bit muddier, in the picture the green is already as bit overemphasized with a filter...
Source: Unknown Bartender, Salon 39, Copenhagen, Denmark
