Twentieth Century

A sharp, sophisticated gin sour from the dawn of the cocktail revival's favorite era of glamour. Lemon and London dry gin frame an unlikely flourish of white crème de cacao, whose cocoa whisper turns floral rather than sweet against Lillet's quinine-tinged wine. Created by British bartender C.A. Tuck and first printed in the 1937 Café Royal Cocktail Book, it was named for the 20th Century Limited, the express train that carried the well-heeled between New York and Chicago.