Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's champagne-absinthe creation. Potent and poetic.
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Ingredients
- Absinthe1 oz (30 ml)
- Champagne5 oz (150 ml)
How to make it
- Pour absinthe into a flute.
- Top slowly with champagne until it turns opalescent.
Glass: Flute
May contain: Wormwood (Thujone), Sulfites. Always check your own bottles.
History
Ernest Hemingway contributed this absinthe-and-Champagne cocktail to a 1935 celebrity recipe book, So Red the Nose. He named it for his 1932 bullfighting treatise and offered characteristically blunt instructions: 'Drink three to five of these slowly.'
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