The Reserve Affair

Ingredients

• 60 ml Roger Groult Reserve Calvados
• 20 ml Cognac VSOP
• 15 ml Dry Vermouth
• 10 ml Crème de Cassis
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• 1 dash Orange Bitters

Method

1. Fill a mixing glass with large ice cubes.
2. Pour the Calvados, Cognac, dry vermouth, and crème de cassis into the mixing glass.
3. Add both bitters.
4. Stir continuously for 30 seconds until well-chilled and diluted.
5. Strain through a fine strainer into the prepared glass.

Coupe glass chilled with ice water beforehand. Garnish with a single expressed orange twist placed on the rim, and a luxardo cherry dropped into the base of the glass. Present with the glass on a dark slate coaster.