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Rite of Spring

Aperitivo/aperitif · Spring

3.6 6 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Old Tom gin
1/2 oz Gentian liqueur
1/2 oz Americano bianco
1/2 oz Rhubarb bitters

How to make

Serve in a old-fashioned glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of grapefruit zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

  1. 5 EXPRESS grapefruit zest twist over cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

21.7% alc./vol. · 1.4 standard drinks · 158 calories

History

A White Negroni variation, originally using two types of rhubarb bitters (also works with 15ml / 1oz Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters). Generous bitters result in a dry, bitter aperitivo.

Todd Crummy, a freelance bartender based in Chicago, USA, created this drink. Crummy states that the cocktail is "Named after Igor Stravinsky's seminal work Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring). Crummy's initial formulation included: 1½ old tom gin, ½ Suze, ½ Cocchi Americano, ¼ Fee Brothers Rhubarb Bitters and ¼ Brooklyn Hemispherical Rhubarb Bitters.

Created by Todd Crummy