Name: Walter Mondale
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Calvados apple brandy; 30 ml Amontillado sherry; 22.5 ml Orange Curaçao; 5 ml Pear liqueur; 2.5 ml Brown sugar syrup

Walter Mondale
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Photographed in a ZigZag Coupe

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 oz	Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry
³⁄₄ oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Giffard Poire William
0.08 oz	Demerara/Muscovado/brown sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Amontillado sherry - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

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Review:

A delicious spirit-forward honey, pear and delicately citrusy late-night sipper balanced and made interesting by underlying sherry.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2018 by Adam Gorski, bar manager at Young Joni bar in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. A riff on a classic El Presidente, this cocktail is eponymously named after the former Minnesota senator and 42nd Vice President.

Nutrition:

One serving of Walter Mondale contains 236 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
25.35% alc./vol. (25.35° proof)
26.6 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

4th April 2024 at 00:43

What a wonderful cocktail. Perfect for an aperitif.
I am old enough to remember the Vice President and his run for the presidency.
The cocktail has a warm taste with a strong sherry flavour as an aftertaste. We used Laird's Applejack 86 which has a stronger apple flavour than the Calvados and is a bit higher in proof. The hints of autumnal fruit are also present.
Wonderful.

Melissa Demian

21st January 2022 at 23:19

I haven't even made this cocktail yet, but the name made me laugh out loud, so I have to make it (I am an American of a Certain Age). I've ordered some of the ingredients; others I'll improvise as I normally have Fino on hand rather than Amontillado. Will report back.

Calvin Grant

20th November 2021 at 03:56

Made this with a Fino Sherry and Pear Brandy and it was excellent. We'll never know how much better Mondale/Ferraro would have been than Reagan/Bush...

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