The Rose has been following Jim Meehan around for nearly two decades. Punctuating major moments in his career, each subsequent spec Meehan has created for the drink reflects not only his own bartending sensibilities, but the broader cocktail zeitgeist of the moment. This evolution, Meehan says, is natural. “If you spend 20 years with a recipe, you might not make it the same the whole time.”
The original Rose was created by Johnny Mitta of the Hotel Chatham in Paris in the 1910s. The drink is an outgrowth of the Vermouth Cocktail genre, made with a reverse Martini build of 2:1 French vermouth to
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