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Bonsai

Name: Bonsai
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Fino sherry; 25 ml Umeshu plum sake; 15 ml Chilli liqueur; 10 ml Palo cortado sherry; 2 dash Absinthe

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
⁵⁄₆ fl oz	Akashi-Tai Shiraume Ginjo Umeshu
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Chilli liqueur
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Lustau Palo Cortado Península Sherry
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
15.3% alc./vol. (30.59° proof)
14.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry, Palo cortado sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created in September 2022 by Juan Jose Orellano Peñalver, a bartender at The Savoy Hotel in London, England. Juan Jose says, he took "inspiration from the Bamboo cocktail, my roots from South of Spain and my travelling time in Asia."

More cocktails by Juan Jose Orellano Peñalver

Review

Savoury and spicy, this is an aperitivo cocktail, that is unless you need a chili-spiced kick-start to your day over breakfast – in which case perhaps rename this Wakey Wakey. Its enlivening spice has a curry-like appeal that makes this cocktail difficult to stop sipping on.

Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$15.99 $0.97 per cocktail Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry image

Lustau Palo Cortado Península 750ml - makes 75 cocktails
$26.99 $0.36 per cocktail

La Fee Parisienne absinthe 200ml - makes 320 cocktails
$17.99 $0.06 per cocktail La Fee Parisienne absinthe image

$1.39 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Patricia Baker 12w

Didn't have the 2nd type of sherry, so upped the umeshu by 10 ml. Used Ancho Reyes Verde liqueur & honestly that was the overwhelming flavor tasted in this cocktail :o For me, some sweetness was needed, so I added 7.5ml (0.25 oz) ginger syrup since I thought it would go well with the umeshu. Will have to continue experimenting because this was meh for me due to the overwhelming chili taste.

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