Name: Arkwood
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Sherry - Fino; 45 ml Vermouth - Dry; 5 ml Gomme syrup; 2 Angostura or other aromatic bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Photographed in a

Speakeasy Coupe 8.5oz

Garnish:

Orange zest twist

How to make:

THROW (or stir) all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Fino sherry
1 1/2 fl oz	Dry vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Gomme syrup
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
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Review:

Aromatic bitters contribute massively to the flavour and hue of this vinous aperitivo. If you like your cocktails bone dry then halve the volume of gomme syrup.

Variant:

Bamboo; Adonis; Armour

History:

The Arkwood Cocktail first appears in the Anonymously written 1895 Bartender's Guide published by The Berner-Mayer Co..

Arkwood Cocktail.
Angostura bitters 2 dashes, gum 2 dashes, ½ sherry ½ vermouth.
The Bartender's Guide, 1895

ARKWOOD COCKTAIL.
LARGE BAR GLASS. – Put in some cracked ice, two dashes bitters, two dashes gum, ½ wine-glass Sherry, ½ wineglass Vermouth. Stir and strain into cocktail glass.
Fancy Drinks, 1902

ARKWOOD COCKTAIL
Large bar glass. – Put in some cracked ice, two dashes bitters, two dashes gum, ½ wine glass Sherry, ½ wine glass Vermouth. Stir and strain into cocktail glass..
Harry Todd, Mixer's Guide, 1933

Nutrition:

One serving of Arkwood contains 92 calories.

Alcohol content:

0.8 standard drinks
12.21% alc./vol. (24.42° proof)
11.7 grams of pure alcohol

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