# 100-Year-Old Cigar

Aged rum becomes a dark after-dinner drink under Cynar, Bénédictine, peat, bitters, and the lingering aroma of an absinthe-rinsed glass.

Strength: 38% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 52.5 ml [Aged rum](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/aged-rum.md)
- 15 ml [Cynar](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/cynar.md)
- 15 ml [Bénédictine](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/benedictine.md)
- 7.5 ml [Islay Scotch whisky](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/islay-scotch-whisky.md)
- 1 dash [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md)
- 7.5 ml [Absinthe](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/absinthe.md)

## Glassware

Coupe glass

## Method

1. Add the absinthe to a chilled coupe, rotate it to coat the interior, and discard the excess.
2. Stir the remaining ingredients with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled and diluted.
3. Strain into the prepared coupe.

## Related drinks

- [Bywater](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bywater.md): Chris Hannah’s current New Orleans rum-Brooklyn branch joins aged rum to Averna, green alpine herbs, falernum, and two aromatic bitters.
- [Midnight Mass](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/midnight-mass.md): Joaquín Simó’s lean rum Preakness lets dry Trinidad rum carry wine-dark Cardamaro, a small Bénédictine measure, and deep citrus-spice bitters.
- [Right Hand](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/right-hand.md): Aged rum takes bourbon's place beside Campari, sweet vermouth, and mole bitters in Michael McIlroy's warmer, orange-scented companion to the Left Hand.
- [Art of Choke](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/art-of-choke.md): Cynar and rum absorb lime, rich demerara, bitters, and muddled mint in a stirred drink whose fresh ingredients behave nothing like a conventional sour.
- [Drunk Uncle](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/drunk-uncle.md): Islay Scotch, Cynar, and blanc vermouth make Shawn Soole’s smoky, vegetal White-Negroni relative spare enough for every bottle to remain exposed.
- [Poolside in Italy](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/poolside-in-italy.md): Dark rum and Cynar share equal weight with fresh grapefruit before a long soda top makes their caramel, earth, and bitterness improbably refreshing.
- [Monte Carlo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-carlo.md): Rye, Bénédictine, and Angostura make an Old Fashioned branch in which the liqueur supplies every trace of sweetness as well as a deep herbal finish.
- [Heart of Glass](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/heart-of-glass.md): Troy Sidle’s room-temperature Manhattan-scaffa measures its own dilution, saturates bourbon with Cynar and bitters, and turns a whiskey rinse into ritual.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar-2a4f31bb.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/100-year-old-cigar-cocktail/