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Roc-A-Coe

Name: Roc-A-Coe
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 30 ml Cream sherry; 15 ml Amontillado sherry

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (6)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Lustau East India Solera Cream Sherry
1/2 fl oz	Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

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

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
23.9% alc./vol. (47.8° proof)
21.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Cream sherry, Amontillado sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

ROC-A-COE COCKTAIL.
½ Sherry.
½ Dry Gin.
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. Add a cherry.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Review

Aromatic and balanced.

Comments & Discussion

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John CARR Premium Member 1y

I used botanist gin, which was possibly too nuanced here. Might go with something more traditional next time. And Lustau East India solera for the other half since it already incorporates oloroso - was fantastic. Final result was like a perfect martini, verging on Gin & It (of which I am a fan).

Ian Lessels Premium Member 3y

This is simple but great. Turbocharged sherry. Obvs you need to like sherry. I think a very good sherry is going to be critical here. We used Williams and Humbert "A Winters Tale".

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