Whiskey Cocktails: Bourbon
Boulevardier
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Four Roses Bourbon Yellow Label
1 oz. Campari
0.75 oz. Dolin Sweet Vermouth
Garnish
Orange twist
Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and add ice. Stir 25-35 times. Strain into a coupe or stemmed cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
Cocktail Story
Famous bartender Harry McElhone served the Boulevardier in Paris in the late 1920s to frequent patron Erskinne Gwynne, the editor of a New Yorker-esque publication called The Boulevardier. McElhone made a common practice of dedicating drinks to his customers, who were perhaps themselves the cocktail’s original creators, from the other side of the bar. This cocktail, which appears in both McElhone’s Harry’s ABCs of Mixing Cocktails (1925) and Barflies and Cocktails (1927), hearkens back to a Negroni or Old Pal, and is easy to lighten or deepen in flavor, depending on the amount of Campari used.