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Cocktail of the week: Le Magritte’s bitter velvet – recipe
A zesty, grown-up, after-dinner digestif that drifts into the arena of the rum old fashioned but in a fancy glass
TL;DR
- The Bitter Velvet is an after-dinner refresher with balanced sweet, bitter, and rich flavors.
- It features a clean, bitter-edged finish, suitable for cooler evenings.
- Ingredients include 20ml golden rum, 20ml amaretto, 20ml coffee liqueur, and 20ml Fernet Branca.
- The cocktail is prepared by stirring ingredients with ice and straining into a nick & nora glass.
- It is garnished with a strip of orange zest, with oils expressed over the top.
- The recipe is attributed to Giovanni Dellaglio from Le Magritte at The Beaumont hotel, London.