The Room Is the Moat
Champagne with cognac float, sugar cube & Angostura — borrowed weight, single pour
The Times Center is roughly forty percent of his total event cost
Why this cocktail? Jacob borrows the Times Center's institutional weight. This champagne with a cognac float borrows the same way.
The Story
Jacob writes the check for the Renzo Piano room inside the Times Building because the venue does work no marketing campaign could replicate. This champagne cocktail is the same move — a humble sugar cube and bitters on the bottom, lifted by champagne and topped with a quiet float of cognac so the first thing you taste is the heritage on top. Borrowed weight in a flute.
Read Full Story →Ingredients
- 1 sugar cube
- 3 dashes Angostura bitters
- 4 oz Champagne
- 0.25 oz cognac (float)
- Lemon twist
Preparation
- 1.Place sugar cube in a flute, soak with bitters.
- 2.Top slowly with Champagne.
- 3.Float cognac across the back of a spoon.
- 4.Express lemon twist over the surface.
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