# Bénédictine

A French herbal liqueur made with 27 herbs and spices, with honeyed, citrus, pine, and almond notes.

Parent category: [Herbal liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/herbal-liqueur.md)

Alcohol: 40% ABV

## Cocktails

- [100-Year-Old Cigar](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/100-year-old-cigar.md): Aged rum becomes a dark after-dinner drink under Cynar, Bénédictine, peat, bitters, and the lingering aroma of an absinthe-rinsed glass.
- [Bobby Burns](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bobby-burns.md): A Scotch Manhattan enriched with honeyed, herbal Bénédictine.
- [Chrysanthemum](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/chrysanthemum.md): A lower-proof, vermouth-led classic scented with honeyed Bénédictine, absinthe, and orange.
- [Ford Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/ford-cocktail.md): Equal Old Tom gin and dry vermouth make a soft, wine-led nineteenth-century Martini branch, with mere dashes of Bénédictine and orange bitters supplying honeyed herbal detail.
- [La Louisiane](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-louisiane.md): A deeply aromatic New Orleans rye cocktail layered with sweet vermouth, Bénédictine, absinthe, and Peychaud’s bitters.
- [Mexican Monk](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mexican-monk.md): A dry, spirit-forward tequila cocktail deepened by amontillado, Bénédictine, and coffee liqueur.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Monte Cassino](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/monte-cassino.md): Damon Dyer’s equal-parts rye sour makes Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine full partners, joining grain, herbs, honeyed spice, and lemon.
- [Poet's Dream](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/poets-dream.md): Mere dashes of Bénédictine and orange bitters perfume a lean two-to-one gin Martini in the restrained 1937 Café Royal form.
- [Preakness](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/preakness.md): A tiny measure of Bénédictine seasons a rye Manhattan with honeyed herbs and spice in the 1936 structure associated with Baltimore's first Preakness Ball.
- [Queen Elizabeth](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/queen-elizabeth.md): Dry vermouth leads this brisk, lower-proof 1930s sour, with Bénédictine supplying honeyed herbs against a full measure of lime.
- [Rolls Royce](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/rolls-royce.md): A Perfect Martini structure of dry gin and both vermouths gains a small honeyed, herbal accent from Bénédictine.
- [Sforzando](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/sforzando.md): A dry, smoky Manhattan variation combining rye and mezcal with Bénédictine and mole bitters.
- [Singapore Sling](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/singapore-sling.md): The modern Raffles branch folds gin, cherry, orange, Bénédictine, bitters, and grenadine through fresh pineapple and lime into a long, foaming tropical classic.
- [Vieux Carré](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/vieux-carre.md): Rye, Cognac, and vermouth layered with Bénédictine and Peychaud’s bitters.
- [Widow's Kiss](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/widows-kiss.md): Calvados anchors equal small measures of Yellow Chartreuse and Bénédictine in a compact nineteenth-century digestif whose sweetness is checked by aromatic bitters.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/benedictine
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/ingredients/benedictine-b0afc2a1.webp
- Source: https://www.benedictinedom.com/collection/benedictine-dom/