The Rules of the Game

Satirize the French upper-class by drinking like them

Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game is a film about upper-class French people acting ridiculous during the course of an over-indulgent weekend retreat at a Marquis’ country estate. In making a companion cocktail, I reached for two delicious and decidedly fancy French ingredients: Grand Marnier orange liqueur and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Together with some fresh orange juice, brandy, and orgeat, I feel it captures the spirit of something you might sip while on the terrace of a sprawling mansion in the Loire Valley.

The Rules of the Game

• 1½ oz orange juice

• 1½ oz brandy

• ½ oz Grand Marnier

• ¼ oz St‑Germain elderflower liqueur

• ¼ oz orgeat

• orange twist, for garnish

Shake with ice. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
☞ Alan Joyce / The Sunken Galley