Vermouth, stirred
Duplex
Barline 1h,1h,2,co
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 1 1/2 oz Sweet vermouth
- 1 1/2 oz Dry vermouth
- 2 dashes Orange bitters
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Coupe, orange twist.
Taste
Equal ounces and a half of sweet and dry vermouth, so neither wins. Two dashes of orange bitters are peel on the split wine. Stirred, no spirit, coupe, orange twist. Grape and spice, cold, with a thin orange film on the wine.
History
Albert Stevens Crockett, in Old Waldorf Bar Days (1931), lists the Duplex as equal Italian and French vermouth with two dashes of orange bitters or two squeezes of orange peel, and calls it parent of the original Bronx. Johnnie Solon of the Waldorf said he was making a Duplex when Traverson, head waiter of the Empire Room, challenged him to invent a new cocktail, and he added gin and orange juice. The Waldorf Duplex is what is poured here: an ounce and a half of each vermouth, two dashes of orange bitters, stirred, coupe, orange twist.
Same shape, other bottles
The Vermouth family, with the bottle that changed.
- Bamboosherry for sweet vermouth
- Coronation No. 1sherry for sweet vermouth
- Vermouth Panachémore sweet vermouth
- Adonissherry for dry vermouth
- Diplomatwith maraschino liqueur
- Tip Topwith Bénédictine
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour.