Name: Clairvoyant
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Oloroso sherry; 45 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Hazelnut liqueur; 1 dash Orange bitters

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño Sherry

1 1/2 fl oz

Strucchi Dry Vermouth

1/2 fl oz

Hazelnut liqueur

1 dash

Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

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

Nutrition:

One serving of Clairvoyant contains 142 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
15.09% alc./vol. (30.19° proof)
15.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Oloroso sherry, Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites
Hazelnut liqueur — Nuts

Comments & Discussion

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Rik de Boer 8 months ago

Didn't have hazelnut liqueur. So used walnut liqueur (Nocello) instead.
Floated a couple of raw walnuts on top.
Worked!

Whether you use hazelnut liqueur (which I'm still to try) or walnut liqueur, and echoing @Kenneth below, I'd say this is a subtle and sophisticated lowish-in-alcohol cocktail that will appeal to many, as it mellows out some of the "hard-core" sherry flavours that not everyone likes in sherry by itself.

Kenneth Stoltz 9 months ago

This is a phenomenally balanced drink. I don't really like any of these ingredients but the combination of the 4 is exceptional. I was trying to use up some oloroso but now I might end up buying another bottle!

Jeremy Harrold 10 months ago

An interesting combination of flavours which gave rise to an interesting drink. Hazelnut liqueur can be overpowering but in this drink it was a nice counterpoint though I did use two dashes of bitters. Good.

Dan Casselman 1 year ago

One of us wanted the Frangelico dialed up, and the other dialed down. On the average we did settle for 15 ml. (25 ml in one and 5 ml in the other) I get the enhancing of the nutty Oloroso flavour with the Frangelico, just don't let it overpower the Sherry.

Fernando Yu 2 years ago

Used Lustau Oloroso. The Frangelico definitely gave this the nutty flavor and it's an overall nice drink.

Nick Crabtree 3 years ago

We have taken the frangelico down a little bit, and then used a dry oloroso instead of the fino. It keeps the nuttiness, but makes it rounder and slightly less sharp. We used Knightor’s dry vermouth. Next time we’ll try with a palo cortado. I think this is a bit underrated.

Simon Difford 3 years ago

Agreed, less liqueur and dry oloroso sherry are delicious. I've amended the recipe accordingly. I also tried with palo cortado but nutty notes were more pronounced and overall cocktail better with oloroso. Many thanks, Nick.