A rich, almond-flavoured Cuba Libre.
Delicately bittersweet, with red-wine notes and herbal complexity. (For the rouge quinquina, I used Raphaël, as per the original recipe.)
Delicately floral rye whiskey with fernet adding layers of bitter herbal complexity.
A pisco-based riff on a White Negroni.
Reminiscent of a fernet-influenced Manhattan with elderflower liqueur vying for attention.
Reminiscent of a herbal liqueur-heavy Last Word.
A riff on the Clover Club or an Aviation without crème de violet, smoothed with fluffy egg white.
Made with good espresso, this cocktail is a richly flavoured balance of bittersweetness.
A Bamboo meets a Vodka Martini in a vodka-laced aromatic aperitif cocktail. So named due to its packing a trio of fortified wines.
Vodka-laced and mango-flavoured with ginger and chilli spice.
Exactly as the name promises, with a splash of cachaça adding to the rum-laced, lightly soured, spicy mango.
Mezcal adds character to this delicately spicy, mango-flavoured Buck.
I've heard it said, "You can tell a newly opened cocktail bar is successful when they need a second bottle of Angostura." Over 500 cocktails on this...
Spirit-forward, bittersweet and herbal.
Sloe gin adds a touch of fruitiness to this delicately herbal, vinous aperitivo.
A refreshing, delicately bittersweet and sweet 'n' sour, more interesting take on a Limoncello Spritz.
Layers of vinous complexity and with richness balanced by delicate acidity and bitterness.
The Boulevardier meets the Whiskey Sour.
Suitably bitter with herbal notes freshened and lifted by lemon and pisco.
Rye whiskey underpins an interplay between herbal and zesty citrus flavours.
A banana-flavoured riff on a Pisco Sour.
The classic English summertime refresher.
Your choice of rum may be what makes/breaks this banana and sherry-flavoured cocktail.
A 2:1 Dry Martini but with a splash of orange curaçao mellowing the dryness and adding more subtle complexity than orange bitters.