Day Bell
Recipe:
- 45ml bourbon
- 15ml Ital. red bitter liqueur (e.g. Campari)
- 7.5ml Ramazotti amaro
- 7.5ml Grand Marnier
- 2 drops saline solution or a small pinch of salt
- 30ml Champagne
Stir the first 4 ingredients with the salt over ice until sufficiently chilled, strain into your prechilled cocktail glass, top up with 30ml ice cold Champagne. Garnish with an orange zest.
I am always a fan of drinks with "fillers" where they are not added to simply "top up", but in measured, small quantities. Especially with Champagne you have this rarely, but here is a very interesting example.
In the nose a nice mix of nuts, bitter orange, cocoa, dry freshness and leather.
On the tongue leather and cocoa, nut mixture, orange peel and orange oils, then in the last third the dry champagne with the carbonic acid, quite tart, quite bitter, slightly sweet and dry.
Very complex Champagne drink, one of the most complex I've had to be exact, you can play quite some time with in the mouth, experiencing new aromas.
Source: Death & Co
