Roffignac Cocktail

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This upgrade connected an aged New Orleans portion makes for a much balanced instrumentality connected what was primitively a precise saccharine drink. The aged look successful Stanley Clisby Arthur’s classical cocktail publication called for whiskey, but this mentation from the barroom Cure's caller cocktail publication uses Darroze 8 Year Les Grands Assemblages Bas-Armagnac, a French grape brandy, for the base. Co-author Neal Bodenheimer notes that the look works “surprisingly good with immoderate fig of unaged spirits,” but doesn’t similar it with the archetypal whiskey. The raspberry shrub tin beryllium refrigerated for respective months.

Refrigerate the shrub for up to 3 months.

Ingredients

For the raspberry shrub

1/2 cupful caller raspberries
1/2 cupful acold water
1/2 cupful granulated sugar
1/2 cupful achromatic vinegar

For the drink

Ice
1 1/2 ounces bas-armagnac (or your preferred spirit; spot headnote)
1 ounce raspberry shrub
2 to 3 ounces soda water, to top
Fresh raspberries, for garnish (optional)
Mint sprig, for garnish (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
132
Carbohydrates
9 g
Sugar
9 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 “Cure: New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em,” by Neal Bodenheimer and Emily Timberlake (Abrams, 2022)

Tested by M. Carrie Allan.

Published December 14, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026