A powerful sisterhood like the Bene Gesserit from Dune: Prophecy deserves a strong, bold cocktail.
About Dune: Prophecy
Frank Herbert’s 1965 book, Dune, brings to life a future society of interconnected planets ruled by an emperor and an oligarchy of patrician families. It’s a dystopian vision about the corruption of power and money…and religion. Herbert himself wrote five more books about the world of Dune — also known as the planet of Arrakis — and the Atreides and Harkonnen families whose struggle for power and survival is at the center of the novels. While the men overtly vie for power and primacy, a sect of priestesses, the Bene Gesserit, exert enormous influence behind the scenes. It is they who set the traps and pull the strings. It is they who really run things. Two recent films directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, have made the characters of this world part of our collective consciousness.
The founding of the Bene Gesserit is the subject of Prophecy, a prequel currently produced by HBO. The new series takes place 10,000 years before the Dune chronicles, and it stars Emily Watson and Travis Fimmel. All we can do is make this cocktail and brood about its revelations and plot twists.
The Bene Gesserit, a Dune: Prophecy Cocktail
Description
A cocktail fit for a sisterhood.
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 oz bourbon
- 1/2 oz 1129 Ridge Ave Absinthe Rouge from Lawrenceville Distillery (or your choice of red absinthe)
- 1/2 oz sweet vermouth
- 1 oz Campari
- 1 barspoon Amaro Averna
Instructions
- In a shake filled with ice, add bourbon, red absinthe and Campari.
- Stir with a barspoon until deeply chilled.
- Pour into a coupe glass.
- Pour a spoonful of Amaro Averna over the back of a barspoon.
- Express a twist of lemon over the drink, and toss the twist in.
Recipe by Justin Matase
Photography and Video by Cody Baker
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