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Sauternes Cup

Straub's Sauternes Cup is a large-format sweet-wine cup with Brandy, Chartreuse, Maraschino, curacao, fruit, and mint.

citrus · stone_fruit · mint · floral · party · celebratory · formal

Served in Large glass pitcher. Ice: Long cube ice.

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Variants (2)

Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks by Jacques Straub (1913, p.65) — Straub 1913

lemon — Thin sliced lemon; quantity indistinct in OCR.acid
Lemon juice (fresh) — Lemon Juiceacid
1 ponybrandy — French Brandybase
1 pintApollinaris dilution
2 piecesCucumber rind — Cucumber Rindgarnish
6 piecesmaraschino cherries — Maraschino Cherriesgarnish
Orange — Pieces of sliced orange.garnish
pineapple — Pieces of sliced pineapple.garnish
1 ponycuracao modifier
1 ponyMaraschino — Maraschino (French)modifier
1 ponyyellow chartreuse modifier
1 bunchmint — Green Mintother
1 quartSauternes other
  1. Build in a large glass pitcher with a long cube of ice and stir well.
  2. Dress with fruit, cucumber rind, cherries, and mint on top.

Garnish: Fruit, cucumber rind, cherries, and mint

Ice: Long cube ice

This matters because Straub preserves a fully garnished Sauternes cup as part of the still-living formal cup tradition.

The service identity lies in the decorated shared-pitcher build and mixed fruit garnish rather than a modern single-glass wine serve.

Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks by Jacques Straub (1913, p.66) — Southern Style

1 slicedlemon — Fraction unclear in OCR.acid
1 jiggerbrandy — French Brandybase
1 jiggerLemon juice (fresh) — Lemon Juicebase
1 pintApollinaris dilution
maraschino cherries — Maraschino Cherriesgarnish
1 slicedOrange — Fraction unclear in OCR.garnish
5 slicespineapple — Source gives 4 or 5 slices.garnish
1 jiggerBenedictine modifier
1 jiggercuracao modifier
1 bunchmint — Green Mintother
1 quartSauternes — Barton & Guestier Sauternesother
  1. Stir well in a large glass pitcher with a long cube of ice.
  2. Top with mint and serve in Delmonico glasses.

Garnish: Fruit, cherries, and mint

Ice: 1 long large cube ice

This variant matters because Straub explicitly preserves a named regional-style branch within the cup tradition rather than treating Sauternes service as fixed.

The service remains formal shared-pitcher cup logic, but the Southern Style label marks a distinct sweet-wine branch worth keeping separate at variant level.

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See also: Sauternes Cup, Rhine Wine Cup