Dale/David Project? What Dale/David Project?! It has been so long since I updated this thread that I had to dig through the archives to figure out what number we're on.

The Debonaire Cocktail has such a vintage ring to it that you'd think it had been around since before the "noble experiment." Come to find out, the cocktail was invented in comparatively recent years by Gary and Mardee Regan, the authorly couple who pen the Ardent Spirits Web site and newsletter. I compared two recipes for this evening's tasting.

The recipe in Dale's book:
2 1/2 oz Highland Malt Scotch
3/4 oz Canton Ginger liqueur

The ingredients as the recipe occurs in Gary Regan's Joy of Mixology:
2 1/2 oz Oban or Springbank
1 oz Original Canton Delicate Ginger Liqueur

Since the recipe calls for Canton Ginger Liqueur, and since both of these books came out before the re-introduction of Domaine de Canton, I am curious how this cocktail tastes with the original incarnation of that cordial. I have scoured liquor stores in locales far and wide searching for a bottle of the original stuff. In Breckenridge, CO, I found a proprietress who had just recently thrown out some bottles because they were so old! If anybody would like to share a taste from their personal archives, I would greatly appreciate it.

I didn't have a bottle of Oban or Springbank, and get easily confused by Scotch, so I reached for a bottle of Highland Park that we had; little did I know the whiskey was bottled at cask strength and so my cocktail came out super boozy. Not that that's a bad thing...