A small note for those who want to play bartender at home: I've prepared a ready-made ingredient list with everything required. Now let me tell you how it all began.
The Tuxedo was born at the end of the 1800s in Tuxedo Park, an exclusive gated community about 60 km north of New York, where in 1886 the Tuxedo Club was founded, one of the most selective gentlemen's clubs in America. It was here that the famous "tuxedo" jacket (tuxedo, in American) was invented in 1886, and the cocktail of the same name was born in the same ambience.
A more refined variation of the Martinez, the Tuxedo features maraschino, absinthe, and orange bitters in addition to the classic gin-vermouth base. Codified by Harry Craddock in the Savoy Cocktail Book of 1930, it is a cocktail that smells of cigar-smoke-filled drawing rooms, white gloves and Wall Street dynasties. The perfect symbol of Belle Époque New York aristocracy.
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