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How to Make an El Presidente: El Presidente Cocktail Recipe

Name: How to Make an El Presidente: El Presidente Cocktail Recipe
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cuban
Ingredients: 1 ½ ounces white rum (or light rum); ¾ ounce Dolin Blanc; ¾ ounce orange Curaçao (or other orange liqueur); 1 dash grenadine; Orange peel twist

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Last updated: Aug 10, 2024 • 1 min read

The El Presidente is a slightly-sweet, red-colored rum drink that is served straight up. The El Presidente comes from Cuba and was popular in the 1920s with Havana’s upper class and Americans escaping Prohibition. Many original recipes call specifically for Vermouth de Chambery, a regional style of vermouth, while some simply use “French vermouth.” Dolin Blanc is a widely available expression of Vermouth de Chambery but any white, dry vermouth will work.

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El Presidente Cocktail Recipe

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makes

1 cocktail

prep time

3 min

total time

3 min

Ingredients

1 ½ ounces white rum (or light rum)
¾ ounce Dolin Blanc
¾ ounce orange Curaçao (or other orange liqueur)
1 dash grenadine
Orange peel twist

1
Chill a coupe or Martini glass by filling it with ice.
2
Fill a mixing glass with ice cubes.
3
Add white rum, Dolin Blanc, Curaçao, and grenadine.
4
Use a bar spoon to stir.
5
Discard the ice from your chilled cocktail glass and strain the cocktail into the glass.
6
Garnish with the orange peel twist and serve. Learn how to twist an orange peel here.

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