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Spirit-forward · Stirred · Historical · complexity 2/5

Montana Cocktail

Mahoney's Montana Cocktail is a light French-vermouth aromatic with anisette and bitters.

anise · bitter · herbal · dry · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass. Ice: Shaved ice.

Variants (2)

The Hoffman House Bartender's Guide by Charles S. Mahoney (1905, p.149)

lemon peel — Squeeze on top.acid
0.75 glassice — shaved icebase
2 dashesbitters bitter
2 dashesanisette — Anisettemodifier
0.5 wine-glassFrench vermouth — French Vermouthmodifier
  1. Stir the shaved ice, anisette, bitters, and French Vermouth with a spoon.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass, squeeze lemon peel on top, and serve.

Garnish: Expressed lemon peel

Ice: Shaved ice

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.185) — Port-cognac branch

0.5 copitacognac — Conacbase
0.25 copitaFrench vermouth — Vermut francesbase
Angostura bitters — Angosturabitter
0.25 copitaport wine — Oportoother
  1. Shake and serve in a cocktail glass.

Ice: Crushed ice

This matters because it preserves a compact cognac-port Metropolitan-adjacent branch in late-1920s Madrid.

See also: Metropolitan Cocktail, Infanta Cocktail