auto cocktail

1/3 French vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry)
1/3 Tom Gin (1 oz Hayman's)
1/3 Scotch (1 oz Famous Grouse)

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.Two Thursdays ago, I was looking in Jacques Straub's 1914 book Drinks and spotted the Auto Cocktail. The recipe was the dry vermouth version of the sweet vermouth Automobile Cocktail that we were served at Eastern Standard leading up to their 75th anniversary Prohibition Repeal Party in 2008. I could see how the sweeter version would be a bigger crowd pleaser and why it won out, but it was time to give this drier gin-Scotch number a go. The Auto began with a Scotch, apricot, and pine bouquet. Next, an off-dry malt and white wine sip drove into Scotch and herbal flavors on the swallow with a lingering chocolate and juniper finish.