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Try this vieux carré cocktail, then check out our old fashioned, manhattan, sloe sazerac, whisky highball and more whisky cocktail recipes.

To help you take this cocktail to the next level, our drinks writer shares her expert guide to vermouth and the best rye whisky to buy.

  • 25ml rye whiskey
  • 25ml cognac
  • 25ml sweet vermouth
  • 1 tsp benedictine
  • 2 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • maraschino cherry
    to garnish

    Method

    • step 1

      Put all of the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice and stir gently until the outside of the glass is cold. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry.

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    Authors

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    Hannah GuinnessSenior sub editor and drinks writer
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