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Sips Adonis

Name: Sips Adonis
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Rubino/Rosso/Rojo vermouth; 25 ml Palo cortado sherry; 20 ml Dry vermouth; 10 ml Amaro (e.g. Santoni); 2 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Rubino/Rosso/Rojo (sweet, fruity) vermouth
5/6 fl oz	Lustau Palo Cortado Península Sherry
2/3 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1/3 fl oz	Amaro Santoni
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Gold Rim Retro Coupette 15cl

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 Sips Adonis contains 134 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
14.26% alc./vol. (28.52° proof)
14.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rubino/Rosso/Rojo (sweet, fruity) vermouth, Palo cortado sherry, Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created by Simone Caporale and Marc Alvarez at Sips in Barcelona and served at the Amaro Santoni takeover of Double Chicken Please in Manhattan in July 2024. Their original recipe calls for 45ml Martini Rubino vermouth, 25ml Palo Cartado, 20ml Noilly Prat Extra Dry vermouth, and 10ml Santoni.

More cocktails by Simone Caporale

Review

Delicious and reminiscent of a fortified bittersweet red wine with zesty orange notes.

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 3 months ago

Lovely complexity here. But we had to do some work-arounds: the only sherry we had was a bold aged dry flor so we reduced that to 15ml; and lacking the Amaro Santoni we substituted 7.5ml Amaro Nonino Quintessentia and 2.5ml Campari; and we increased the orange bitters to three dashes. If this is anywhere near ballpark what the creator intended, well, we say bravo.

Guy Daniels Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 7 months ago

Tried this with Campari in place of the amaro santoni. Very pleasant. Surprised at the dominance of fruit notes. Glad I splurged on a nice Palo Cortado bottle! Will make again.