Name: The Lady Wears Red
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Light white rum; 15 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 7.5 ml Grand Marnier; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 5 ml Fino sherry; 5 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml Falernum liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 1 dash Grapefruit bitters; 1 dash Orange bitters

The Lady Wears Red
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
¹⁄₂ oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
¹⁄₄ oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
¹⁄₆ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₆ oz	Difford's Falernum liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 dash	Bob's Grapefruit Bitters
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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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.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry, Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Review:

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

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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 218 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
17.3% alc./vol. (17.3° proof)
20.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Kjell Eriksson

29th September 2021 at 18:46

High maintenance indeed, but well worth the trouble. Thanks to Simon for editing the original recipe, thus making it doable for us ordinary home mixologists.

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