Instructions

Step 1

Shake cognac, juices, and sugar in a cocktail shaker filled with ice until chilled, about 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled champagne coupe. Gently pour wine over the back of a spoon set on the surface of the liquid so that the wine floats at the top of the glass.

Recipes

New York Sour

Name: New York Sour
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes 1 COCKTAIL
Ingredients: 2 oz. cognac, such as Pierre Ferrand Ambre, Rémy; Martin VSOP, or Hennessy Black; 3 ⁄ 4 oz. fresh orange juice; 3 ⁄ 4 oz. fresh lemon juice; 2 tsp. superfine sugar; 1 ⁄ 2 oz. dry red wine

Serves
makes 1 COCKTAIL

MICHAEL KRAUS

Just a few ingredients add up to a complex whole in this Gilded Age cocktail, an ideal vehicle for a rich VSOP cognac. This recipe first appeared in the 2012 SAVEUR 100, with the article Cognac Cocktails.

Ingredients

2 oz. cognac, such as Pierre Ferrand Ambre, Rémy
Martin VSOP, or Hennessy Black
³⁄₄ oz. fresh orange juice
³⁄₄ oz. fresh lemon juice
2 tsp. superfine sugar
¹⁄₂ oz. dry red wine

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Instructions

Step 1

Shake cognac, juices, and sugar in a cocktail shaker filled with ice until chilled, about 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled champagne coupe. Gently pour wine over the back of a spoon set on the surface of the liquid so that the wine floats at the top of the glass.