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Red Hook Cocktail

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Red Hook Cocktail—rye whiskey cocktail served up in a coupe glass
Photo by Colin Price

The Manhattan/Brooklyn cocktail riff that birthed a dozen others, Vincenzo Errico’s Red Hook was first served at the original Milk & Honey, the influential, vest-pocket-sized, speakeasy-style cocktail bar that opened in New York in 1999. This whiskey cocktail inspired many other bartenders to toy around with the Manhattan template. 

Editor’s note: This easy cocktail recipe calls for Punt e Mes, a bittersweet vermouth that’s delicious to drink on the rocks, or in many cocktails that call for sweet vermouth, including Manhattans, the Bittersweet Symphony, and the large-format All She Wrote.

Recipe information

  • Total Time

    2 minutes

  • Yield

    Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients

2 oz. rye whiskey
½ oz. maraschino liqueur
½ oz. Punt e Mes

Preparation

  1. Combine all the ingredients in a mixing glass filled with ice and stir until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe.

3-Ingredient Cocktail cookbook cover with illustration of three martini glasses in blue, orange, and tan.
Excerpted from 3-Ingredient Cocktails: An Opinionated Guide to the Most Enduring Drinks in the Cocktail Canon © 2017 by Robert Simonson. Photography © 2017 by Colin Price. Reproduced by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Buy the full book from Amazon.
TagsCocktailAlcoholBeveragesVermouthRye WhiskeyWhiskey30 Minutes or LessQuickEasy5 Ingredients or FewerCookbooks

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