Damn It Jimmy

Serve in a Martini glass...
1½	fl oz	Junmai ginjō sake
1½	fl oz	Bacardi Carta Blanca Superior White Rum (37.5%)
¼	fl oz	Fino sherry
¼	fl oz	Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth
⅙	fl oz	Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)

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How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Blue cheese stuffed olive

Comment:

Delicately flavoured and ever so very slightly sweet. Made with Bacardi Carta Blanca (as it originally was) this delicate cocktail has complex notes of blue cheese with faint salty sherry and herbal dry vermouth complexity. it is probably the best drink I've created - although i'd like to think I've a good few more in me

About:

Created in August 2008 by yours truly (Simon Difford) at The Cabinet Room, London, England.

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