Vermouth, stirred
Vermouth Panaché
Barline 2,1,1,cl
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 2 oz Sweet vermouth
- 1 oz Dry vermouth
- 1 dash Orange bitters
Stir with ice until cold, then strain.
Coupe, lemon twist.
Taste
Two ounces of sweet vermouth to one of dry, so the sweet leads. One dash of orange bitters is peel on the grape. Stirred, coupe, lemon twist. Grape and spice, the sweet vermouth leading, with a thin lemon oil on top.
History
Panache is French for mixed. Philip Greene, in To Have and Have Another (2012), gives the name Vermouth Panache to a drink Ernest Hemingway described in a 1934 Esquire piece: on a fishing trip off Havana, French and Italian vermouth over ice with a dash of bitters and a lemon peel. Hemingway did not name it. Greene's reconstruction, as printed in Saveur, is three ounces dry to one sweet, Angostura, on the rocks. This menu inverts the ratio, two sweet to one dry, uses orange bitters, and pours it up with a lemon twist.
Same shape, other bottles
The Vermouth family, with the bottle that changed.
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.