Photo by Colin Price
Basically, this is a Martini made intriguing by a splash of absinthe. If this ends up being your deathbed drink, you didn’t do too badly.
Ingredients
2 ounces gin
¼ ounce dry vermouth
¼ ounce absinthe
Preparation
Combine all the ingredients except the lemon twist in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe. Express a lemon twist over the drink and drop into the glass.
Excerpted from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon © 2017 by Robert Simonson. Photography © 2017 by Colin Price. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
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