Last Word

Taste

Equal three-quarters of gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino, and lime. Each is a quarter of the drink. Herbal, cherry, and lime around the gin. Shaken, coupe, cherry.

History

The Last Word is credited to the Detroit Athletic Club around 1915, and to Frank Fogarty, a vaudeville comedian, who took it to New York. Ted Saucier prints it in Bottoms Up (1951). It nearly vanished, then Murray Stenson put it on the list at Seattle's Zig Zag Café in 2003, and the equal-parts formula spread. This menu keeps three-quarters each of gin, Chartreuse, maraschino, and lime, coupe, cherry.

• Punch, Last Word
• Difford's Guide, Last Word

Same shape, other bottles

The Daisy family, with the bottle that changed.

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• Sidecarcognac and lemon juice for gin and lime juice
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