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Tuxedo

Tuxedo Club, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1890s

The Tuxedo is Old Tom gin and blanc vermouth in equal parts, stirred with a little Luxardo Maraschino, a touch of absinthe and orange bitters. It is crisp and aromatic, with a faint anise lift and a soft cherry note. Served up with a cherry and a lemon twist, it is the right drink for award-season dressing up.

  • GlassMartini
  • MethodStirred
  • Ingredients5
Tuxedo

Ingredients

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Luxardo maraschino cherry and a lemon zest twistGarnish
Total volume—

Directions

  1. Stir all ingredients with ice.
  2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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History

The Tuxedo Club in Tuxedo Park, New York, opened in 1886. Members adopted a tailless dinner jacket that came to be called a tuxedo, and the cocktail is presumed to have started at the club in the 1890s. The first known printed recipe appears in Harry Johnson's 1900 Bartenders' Manual.

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How are you making it? ⓘ Batching includes dilution water. Pre-batched cocktails need added water to replace the melt from stirring or shaking. We use Jeffrey Morgenthaler's standard: 18% for spirit-forward drinks, 25% for shaken.

What you'll need to buy

Based on 750ml bottles (25.4 oz), rounded up.

Bottle math, generally

750ml bottle25.4 oz
2 oz pours per bottle12 cocktails
1.5 oz pours per bottle16 cocktails
1 oz =29.6 ml
This recipe per 750ml of spirit—

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