The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: V.E. Schwab’s The Night’s Lament Cocktail
This is the drink I always imagined Luc—Addie’e nemesis turned lover—sending over to Addie when their paths cross in 1928, at a Chicago speakeasy known only as XII, in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Their relationship is beginning to tip from antagonism into something more nuanced–and more alluring, and this scene ends an unspoken stalemate of fourteen years, where she did not call for him, and he did not come to her. In the end, he is the first to break.
-V. E. Schwab
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: V.E. Schwab’s The Night’s Lament Cocktail
- Demerara sugar, for rimming the glass
- 1 ounce Cointreau
- 1 ounce Cognac
- 4-6 ounces Champagne
- A single rose petal. Red if made for a current lover. White if made for an ex-love.
- Chill a martini glass or champagne coupe.
- Pour sugar onto a shallow plate wider than the rim of the glass. The sugar should be 1/4 high and wider than the glass rim. Pour water into a small saucer wider than the glass rim. Dip the rim in the water, and then in the sugar.
- Pour Cointreau and Cognac in a shaker filled with ice, and shake until chilled, about 30 seconds. Strain into chilled glass.
- Top with champagne. Float a rose petal on the cocktail.