Cocktail of the Week: The Income Tax

The Income Tax.

Sunday, April 12, 2015 | 2 a.m.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Bombay Sapphire gin

1/4 oz Cinzano sweet vermouth

1/4 oz Cinzano dry vermouth

1 1/2 oz orange juice

2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Dehydrated orange round for garnish

Method

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake thoroughly and strain into a chilled cocktail coupe glass. Garnish with a dehydrated orange round.

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This drink evolved from one created in 1906 by Johnnie Solon, a bartender at the Waldorf Astoria New York, and became the Income Tax Cocktail a few decades later with the introduction of bitters. Ironic, right? What’s important to remember though is that this cocktail survived prohibition, WWI, became what it is during WWII, and is still being published in magazines 70 years after that. And you, well, you survived yet another tax day. Drink up.

Cocktail created by Francesco Lafranconi, Executive Director of Mixology and Spirits Education at Southern Wine & Spirits.