Recipes

China Fight Cocktail

April 26, 2016

Aymeric Tortereau, of Café Juliette in Lyon, created this cocktail at a bartenders' workshop to feature Bigallet's bitter liqueur China-China amer. Similar to a manhattan but with cognac and amer providing the powerful base, his concoction gets a refreshing splash of elderflower liqueur.

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China Fight

Similar to a manhattan but with cognac and amer providing the powerful base.

Yield: makes 1 cocktail

Time: 5 minutes

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ oz. cognac
³⁄₄ oz. China-China amer
¹⁄₄ oz. elderflower liqueur
Orange twist, for garnish

Instructions

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, stir the cognac, China-China, and elderflower liqueur until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with an orange twist.