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Widow's Word

After dinner/digestif · Herbal

4.2 58 ratings

Ingredients

3/4 oz Calvados apple brandy
3/4 oz Chartreuse Yellow
3/4 oz Bénédictine D.O.M.
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1 dash Aromatic bitters
2 drop Saline solution 4:1

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 No garnish to prepare.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  2. 4 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. 5 Serve naked, without garnish.

Flavour profile

22.6% alc./vol. · 1.6 standard drinks · 209 calories

History

This cocktail is a fusion of the Widow's Kiss and the Last Word. As Andrew Gelb, a fellow member of Discerning Drinker, noted in a comment on the Last Word cocktail page, it is "a Monte Cassino with the rye replaced by calvados or apple brandy --> Delicious!"

Eric Witz, a cocktail enthusiast from Boston, created this drink and shared his equal-parts recipe on Instagram in late 2015. Chase Hoffman, a photographer of cocktails, developed a variation that is drier and more forward with apple brandy. Hoffman shared his recipe: "1.5 oz unaged apple brandy, 1.0 oz fresh lemon juice. 1.0 oz Yellow Chartreuse, 0.5 oz Bénédictine."

Created by Chase Hoffman