Widow's Kiss
Recipe:
- 60ml Calvados/Apple Brandy
- 7.5ml Benedictine D.O.M.
- 7.5ml Chartreuse Jaune
- 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
Stir everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, strain into your prechilled cocktail glass. Garnish with 1-2 cherries.
A beautiful, classic drink that can boast with several ratios online. Its original ratio of 2:1:1, the 3:1:1 version as used by Cocktailbart (a German cocktail blog) and other sites or the modern, very reduced version as shown here, which I honestly like best. Depending on the mood, I would increase it to a maximum of 6:1:1, as the other variants quickly become too sweet.
Great fresh apple with slightly autumnal notes, clove and cinnamon, almost vinous notes and fennel. Tasting you get apple with peel, various herbal teas, but very finely integrated and not too strong. Gentian, eucalyptus and fennel, some rosemary and thyme, very subtle herbal honey and vanilla, clove and star anise. An ingenious drink, especially during fall/winter.
Source:
Originally in "Modern American Drinks" (1895) by George J. Kappeler, the modern ratio stems from the Truffle On The Rocks Youtube Channel
