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Today’s cocktail is the Delmonico Special! This one dates back to the 1800s at Delmonico’s Restaurant in New York City. Delmonico’s rich history dates back 200 years. It’s considered to be the first fine dining restaurant in the US, and gave us dishes like Eggs Benedict, Baked Alaska, Wedge Salad, and Delmonico Stake. It also gave us this classic gin-based cocktail that’s balanced with cognac and vermouth. Give this recipe a try if you enjoy a Martinez or a Wet Martini. Cheers!
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TIME STAMPS
Intro: 0:00
The History: 0:31
The Booze: 3:35
The Recipe: 4:45
Sips & Sign Off: 5:56
THE DELMONICO SPECIAL COCKTAIL 4:58
1 oz. (30 ml) Plymouth Navy Strength Gin
1/2 oz. (15 ml) Maison Rouge VSOP Cognac
1/2 oz. (15 ml) Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
1/2 oz. (15 ml) Dolin Blanc Vermouth de Chambéry
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Expressed orange oil and peel for garnish
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00:00 Intro
00:31 The History
03:35 The Booze
04:45 The Recipe
05:56 Sips & Sign Off
33 Comments
Now I'm wondering how you'd even spell gin. No gin. GIN never mind
I love a little hostory behind cocktails! Consider me subscribed!
I've learned so much from you. Can't thank you enough.
You have never been? Do yourself a favor and go before it closes again.
Whoa blanc OR dry? Surely that makes a difference, no?
Please do an episode on the Harvard. I had one last year in Liverpool. It was delicious, but I've not been able to find any good information about it since.
Anders was a little more loopty-doop than usual in this one. 😀 I can literally smell this drink and want one now.
Sounds good. Will add it to my “must try” list. Also the comment about a Manhattan made with Cognac made me think that a Manhattan made with Pineau de Charentes would be even more intriguing.
Hahahaha! You were in quite the mood when recording this! I'll be giving this one a go. I'm just about out of sweet vermouth so I'll be having to make a run this week. Haven't ever tried blanc vermouth so this'll be a first for me. Thank you!
Az's off-camera OH GOD made this video 🤣
I'm so glad you covered this cocktail @AndersErickson because you have saved me from feeling cheated. That is, although there is an entry for David Embury (written by Audrey Saunders and Robert Hess) in David Wondrich's 2022 *The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails*, there is no mention of any Delmonico cocktail. So, as you often do, you have save this cocktail from further obscurity. Cheers.
Wow I feel partly responsible for this video … or it may just be a coincidence.
I must say it was a funny watch, but I'm not sure it's one of your fave cocktails. My reasons for really liking this drink..
1) I always have these ingredients at hand
2) It's an undisputed NYC classic cocktail
3) the shelf life of opened vermouths is short .. so I like getting to use both in one go
I don't think I've ever gone from watching the video to making the cocktail so fast. Delicious!
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You rock. I love watching your episodes. Well prepared, knowledgeable, and insightful. I'm always learning, and you bring out the fun in it all. Can you imagine a college lecture being like this?!
Can you do a video comparing different types of dry or Blanc vermouths and maybe a few dry vermouth-forward cocktails using them like you did with sweet vermouth? I never know which dry vermouth bottle to buy
More half-cut Anders please. We've been rewatching all the shows in our Canadian winter and this is an instant #1 favorite!
Love me a perfect martini and will definitely try this one at home. Thank you Anders.
I enjoyed the video when it’s only you being you!🎉
I must be the only one that whal watching this video is drinking a five dollar box of wine and butchering a roadkill jackrabbit.
Love your presence and Az and great spirits ❤
I love watching Anders on drugs!
Anders – could you do a video on the Pearl Diver? Obviously it’s very Tiki, and hope you would consider. There seems to be a great deal of confusion on how to make this the best, gardenia mix, rum choices, ratios, etc. Also of note, I tried a Pearl Diver in Austin last year, which had a Ghee-based Indian-spiced syrup in a Pearl Diver, which changed my life for the better. Place called Tiki Tatsu-ya. Lol
I feel like, towards the end, Anders had already had a few Delmonicos.
Anders is smiling like a mischevious child who knows he's being naughty 🤣🤣🤣
How many of those did you have before you made the video. BLLAAAANNNCCC
Interesting. My go-to is gin and sweet vermouth. Got the idea from Noel Coward's song I've Been to a Marvelous Party where someone "got blind on Dubonnet and gin." Well, Dubonnet's too expensive and too sweet.
6:04 I'm dying laughing. First time viewer of your channel and i'm holding my side, bending over in stitches. I could timestamp several more moments where I did the same, but then the AIs would be able to learn true human humor from your video as they vacuum up all that is human creativity.
Thank you. Thank you for teaching me a new drink. I happen to have a few swigs left of a bottle of Apple Jack…just enough for three Saratogas (or Manhattan substitute Apple Jack) that shall be made for dinner guests tomorrow. 😀
The oldest ? Hmmmm….I'd stay out of New Orleans for a while. Sazerac fans will be after you…lol….Like that restaurant critic in the Treme series, you're likely to get a faceful of absinthe & Peychaud's.
Yep ! the "C" in blanc is silent ! your getting there with the french terms 😂
Hilarious! Adding this one to the “ make soon” list. Thanks!
Anders was a little schnaukered when this video happened! Cheers to you sir!
my man was in rare form this week, hilarious…