jupiter cocktail

2/3 Dry Gin (2 oz Beefeater)
1/3 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1 tsp Parfait Amour (1/4 oz Marie Brizard)
1 tsp Orange Juice (1/4 oz)

Shake (stir) with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.After I entered the Siege of Havana into the Kindred Cocktails database, the site recommended the Jupiter Cocktail from the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book as a related recipe. I was surprised that I had never made it before, and figured it would be a good reason to dust off our 16 year old bottle of Parfait Amour perhaps last used in 2018 and purchased before crème de violette was available in the United States. I believe that I first became aware of the recipe in Ted Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails book, and there he described it as "the finest use of the arcane nineteenth-century liqueur Parfait Amour ever created." He also went on to warn of using too heavy of a pour of the stuff since the "combination of grape jellybeans and marshmallows" can take over a drink. Once prepared, the Jupiter gave forth a pine, vanilla, and floral bouquet to the nose. Next, a semi-crisp sip was upstaged by gin, orange, vanilla, bubblegum, and floral flavors on the swallow.