May 8-Poet’s Dream

Again we have an instance where a cocktail as little information on Difford’s Guide. But what I can tell you about this cocktail is that I was called a psycho for enjoying it. This is nothing against the cocktail, I truly enjoyed it. The reality of cocktail judging is that people have different tastes when it comes to their drinking, my family just doesn’t enjoy Vermouth or benedictine like I do. And that’s totally valid, but that’s the issue with this as a competition since it’s almost completely subjective. Hopefully this is one of the lower average scores we have all summer since they only gave it an average score of 55.33 just 0.33 points above the Left Bank Martini.

Even though this score seems low I would still recommend trying this cocktail, especially if you like the taste of benedictine and vermouth with the botanicals of gin. Again I understand that this cocktail has a very specific taste and you need an even more specific palate to enjoy it, but I say the same thing about Campari and maybe Fernet. Once you develop thew taste for it there is nothing better.

Unfortunately I don’t have much else to say about this drink except that this is a great second use foir that Benedictine you bought to make Monte Carlos.

Full Judging Here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ksWIeA3xTzGd8FH2KLeByPm2ptwmDeNEh9dcKzRcDXs/edit?tab=t.0 .