Berry Wall

3,5 cl Catz® Dry Gin
3,5 cl Italian Vermouth
4 Dashes De Kuyper Orange Curaçao

Mixing Technique: Cocktail shaker
Glass: Cocktail (retro)
Garnish: Lemon
Method: Pour all ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with cracked ice and shake until the mixture is properly chilled. Strain into a refrigerated cocktail glass, squeeze lemon peel on top and decorate with lemon

2018-11-21T19:42:52+01:00By Berry Wall|Categories: Before Dinner Cocktails, Catz® Dry Gin Cocktails, De Kuyper Cocktails, Tribute Cocktails|

Historical Perspective

Berry Wall was said to consume a pint of champagne each morning with breakfast. However, Wall's liquid tribute, possibly concocted by Ritz bartender Frank Meier, did not contain any sparkle. In addition to the Berry Wall Cocktail, he had a recipe invented in his name, the Steak Berry Wall, a broiled steak served with a butter enriched with mustard and Worcestershire sauce. The Berry Wall Cocktail earned a listing in the famous The Savoy Cocktail Book, which was published in 1930.

Berry Wall

Socialite

New York, January 14, 1861

United States

Evander Berry Wall was a New York City socialite, later becoming an American expatriate in France during the Belle Époque. Wall was notorious for his extravagantly refined look which earnt him the name "King of the Dudes" in the 1880s. As a fashion-leader, Wall has been credited for having been the first person in the United States to wear a dinner jacket (tuxedo) to a ball. Wall's commercial career was not as successful as his fashion life. An ill-conceived stock-Several business-failures ended in an 1899 bankruptcy, after which Wall left for Paris in 1912. Traveling between Paris, Deauville, Biarritz, or Aix-les-Bains, Wall and his wife were famous members of the European social elite. While in Paris they lived in a suite in the Hotel Meurice, but Wall always dined at the Ritz alongside one of his chow dogs, whose collars and ties were styled in the same fashion and fabric as his master's. Wall wrote his memoirs (In Neither Pest Nor Puritan) in his late seventies, and they were published after his death in 1940. Wall famously claimed that he never drank anything other than champagne his entire adult life. Berry Wall ascribed his longevity to the fact he never saw physicians, always drinking champagne instead of water, claiming that "There are more old drunkards than there are old doctors." Wall passed away in Nice, Côte d'Azur (France) on May 04, 1940 at the age of 79.