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This recipe, created by bartending fable Audrey Saunders, has been connected the paper astatine PDT successful Manhattan for years. It's a wonderfully fresh, autumnal cocktail that features adust Riesling wine. PDT mixologist Jim Meehan calls specifically for wines from New York's Finger Lakes region, specified arsenic Dr. Konstantin Frank.

Be definite to usage a clear, unaged pear brandy -- Clear Creek successful Oregon makes a bully home 1 -- and Peychaud's gentian-based bitters.

Adapted from Meehan's "The PDT Cocktail Book" (Sterling Epicure, 2011).

Ingredients

Ice
2 ounces adust Riesling
1 ounce pear brandy oregon poire williams
1/2 ounce orangish curaçao
1/4 ounce chromatic syrup (see NOTE)
3 dashes Peychaud's bitters
1 full prima anise, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
180
Carbohydrates
18 g
Sugar
16 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Meehan's "The PDT Cocktail Book" (Sterling Epicure, 2011).

Tested by Jason Wilson and Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published September 27, 2011

Updated March 14, 2026