Tart, mint, citrus
Pair a reviver with a couple of aspirin and a breakfast sandwich.
Corpse Revivers are a whole class of drinks designed to be imbibed in the morning to help drinkers shake off a particularly numbing hangover. The original recipe calls for Lillet, an aperitif from France. Sadly, the formula for Lillet changed in 1987, when the company made their aperitif sweeter and removed the cinchona bark—containing bitter quinine—to make its product more palatable to modern tastes. The unfortunate result was that this reformulation threw off the balance of a number of classics, including this one. Hence the excitement when Cocchi Americano, an Italian aperitif that tastes similar to the original formulation of Lillet, became available in 2006.
1 ounce (30 ml) gin (Plymouth)
¾ ounce (22 ml) Cointreau
¾ ounce (22 ml) Cocchi Americano
¾ ounce (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
Absinthe, to rinse the glass
Rinse a chilled coupe glass with absinthe. Shake ingredients with ice and strain into the prepared glass.