Sherry Cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (7 ratings)

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
23 oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
13 oz Strucchi Bianco Vermouth
13 oz Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximénez Sherry
112 oz Orange Curaçao liqueur
1 dash Boker's bitters
2 drop Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of skewered Fragata Green Olives.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with skewered olives.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 7/10

Review:

Sherry-forward, backed by herbal vermouth with subtle zesty orange. (An additional orange zest twist may be too much.)

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History:

Created by yours truly at the suggestion of Chris Dimal, a fellow Discerning Drinker.

Nutrition:

One serving of Sherry Cocktail contains 109 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1 standard drinks
  • 13.04% alc./vol. (13.04° proof)
  • 13.4 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR’s Avatar John CARR
11th November 2024 at 12:41
Very savoury and subtle. Numerous delicate waves of flavours progressively over the palate. Would be brilliant as an aperitif. We had already opened the bottle of fino, drunk straight to accompany our antipasto and cheeseboard, but this was a wonderful palate cleanser too.
G. M. Genovese’s Avatar G. M. Genovese
31st May 2024 at 14:07
One of the better stirred drinks I've had in a short while. Good excuse to use up some of my amontillado. There's a fresh, earthy, aqueous(?) note in the aftertaste, like a spring/stream or at its most extreme a swimming pool. Like being immersed physically or just sensually in water. Don't know if that makes sense. Fruity, but short of saccharine. Used Cocchi Americano and PF Dry Curacao. I've kind of been waiting for something like this. Fine work gentlemen.