Name: The Lady Wears Red
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rum - White (charcoal-filtered) 1-3 year old light; 15 ml Aperol (orange-red aperitivo); 7.5 ml Grand Marnier liqueur; 7.5 ml Triple sec liqueur (40%); 5 ml Sherry - Fino; 5 ml Vermouth - Dry; 5 ml Falernum liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (rich) 2 sugar to 1 water; 1 Grapefruit bitters; 1 Orange bitters

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Champagne foam

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. FLOAT champagne foam made by macerating orange zests in champagne overnight, adding gelatin and charging with N2O siphon.

1 1/2 fl oz	Bacardi Carta Blanca light rum
1/2 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
1/4 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1/4 fl oz	Triple sec liqueur (40%)
1/6 fl oz	Fino sherry
1/6 fl oz	Noilly Prat Extra Dry
1/6 fl oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1/4 fl oz	Sugar syrup (65.0°brix, 2 sugar to 1 water rich syrup)
1 dash	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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Bacardi Carta Blanca light rum, 70cl

£ 17.75 £ 1.15 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Aperol Aperitivo, 70cl

£ 14.45 £ 0.31 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Grand Marnier liqueur, 70cl

£ 28.95 £ 0.31 per cocktail, makes 93 Gutierrez Colosia Fino Sherry, 75cl

£ 15.25 £ 0.10 per cocktail, makes 150.5 Bob's Grapefruit Bitters, 10cl

£ 13.45 £ 0.27 per cocktail, makes 50

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Review:

This 'Lady' is high maintenance but she delivers a complex reward.

History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2008 by Ben Carlotto at The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland. The original recipe calls for homemade dry orange syrup made by macerating orange zests in a blend of different sugars with Lillet Blanc and fino sherry. It also calls for homemade citrus bitters, a complex mixture of kaffir lime leaves, various citrus elements, and spices like cardamom and cassia.

Nutrition:

One serving of The Lady Wears Red contains 237 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
18.22% alc./vol. (36.44° proof)
22 grams of pure alcohol

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