The Old-Fashioned
Monte Carlo
Ingredients
- 2 ounces
- ½ ounce
- 2 dashes
- Garnish: 1 twist
Method
Stir all the ingredients over ice, then strain into an Old-Fashioned glass over 1 large ice cube. Express the lemon twist over the glass and place it into the drink.
History
A rye-based variation on the Old-Fashioned template that swaps in Bénédictine for sugar, giving it a honeyed, herbal sweetness; it dates to the early 20th-century era of named riffs on the whiskey cocktail.