Tim Morehouse gave fencing lessons Monday night to members and guests of The Society, a culture club for the creative class in Toronto, NYC, Miami, and Los Angeles.
The event was sponsored by Zacapa Rum and featured the En Garde! cocktail:
En Garde!
1 1/2 oz Zacapa Rum
3/4 oz Lime Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
1 Fresh Strawberry, quartered*
3 Fresh Basil Leaves
Muddle strawberries with simple syrup in a cocktail shaker
Add rum, lime juice and basil leaves and ice
Shake vigorously
Strain into cocktail glass
(* You can instead use a puree to make it easier to make the cocktails quickly. The puree was just strawberries with about a Tbsp of sugar in a food processor.)
Researching fencing-related cocktails brought out a reference to a recipe featured in Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. That recipe was created by Lucien Guadin, master of both the foil and épée to celebrate his 1928 medals in individual foil and epee. Guadin was winner of multiple medals at the three different Olympic games during the 1920s, and is immortalized as a mixologist here.
Here’s Gaudin’s En Garde!
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail
1 oz. gin
½ oz. dry vermouth (Noilly-Prat’s fruitiness works well here)
½ oz. Campari (or Aperol)
½ oz. CointreauStir well with ice; strain into a chilled cocktail glass; garnish with orange peel
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