Montreal Cocktail (official city cocktail)
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a nick & nora glass
Prepare
- 1 Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
- 2 Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.
Method
- 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
- 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish
- 5 EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.
Flavour profile
22.7% alc./vol. · 1.5 standard drinks · 191 calories
History
Spirituous, bittersweet aperitif reflecting Montreal's influences with gin, gentian, and rye.
In the summer of 2017, fifteen Montreal bartenders worked together to create this drink, with the "hope to not only inspire the people of our great city, but those of other communities across the globe, to give life and to embrace the Montreal Cocktail as a modern-day classic." This project, which coincided with Montreal's 375th anniversary, was spearheaded by Kevin Demers, who owns Montreal's Coldroom. The other fourteen team members included Brynley Leach, Charles Landry, Chris Natale, Drahos Chytry, Fabien Maillard, Graham Warner, Hugo Dallaire, Jason Griffin, Kate Boushel, Philippe Haman, Sabrina Mailhot, Sam Dalcourt, Tony Galdes, and Jean-Maxime Giguere.