Equal parts brandy, curaçao and orange juice shake into a warm, citrus-bright sipper, the soft amber depth of the brandy sitting behind a round, juicy orange sweetness. It drinks like a Sidecar with orange juice where the lemon would be — gentler and fuller, trading the sharp pucker for ripe fruit, served up and cold in a coupe.
Shaken · Coupe · Up
add
Add the brandy, curaçao, and orange juice to a shaker filled with ice.
shake
Shake well until thoroughly chilled.
strain
Strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass, served up.
The Olympic appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, a volume compiled from the Savoy Hotel's American Bar, and that book credits no individual inventor for it. Its name is shared with the RMS Olympic, an ocean liner of the period, and it calls to mind the heyday of transatlantic crossings. Within a few years, Frank Meier's 1936 book The Artistry of Mixing Drinks also listed the drink, but with a more brandy-forward balance — two parts brandy to one each of curaçao and orange juice — in place of the Savoy's equal measures.