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Cocktail recipe

Boulevardier

Whiskey variation on the Negroni.

Boulevardier cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.25 oz Bourbon Whiskey
  • 1 oz Campari
  • 1 oz Sweet Vermouth
  • 1 piece Orange Peel

Method

  1. Stir the Bourbon Whiskey, Campari, and sweet vermouth with ice until chilled.
  2. Strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
  3. Garnish with orange peel.

Story

First printed in Harry MacElhone's 1927 book Barflies and Cocktails and credited to Erskine Gwynne, a Paris-based American who published a magazine called The Boulevardier. It is a Negroni with bourbon in place of gin, and it predates the modern Negroni craze by decades.