Ingredients

  • 2 ozgreen chartreuse
  • 4 oztonic water
  • 🍋Lime wheel, fresh rosemary sprig(garnish)

🔧 Tools

highball glassjiggerbar spoon

Instructions

  1. Fill a highball glass with ice cubes.
  2. Pour green Chartreuse over the ice.
  3. Top with cold tonic water and gently stir once to combine.
  4. Garnish with a lime wheel and a fresh rosemary sprig. Serve immediately.

📜 History

The Chartreuse & Tonic applies the spirit-and-tonic highball format to green Chartreuse. The Gin & Tonic, popularized by the British in colonial India where quinine-containing tonic water was used as an anti-malarial treatment, became one of the world's most replicated cocktail templates — applied today to nearly every category of spirit. Chartreuse and tonic work particularly well together because the quinine bitterness of tonic complements the herbal bitterness already present in the liqueur, while the carbonation lifts and extends Chartreuse's aromatics. The format is recognized in Imbibe Magazine's Chartreuse cocktail reference as a standard long-drink serve.

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