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Pinto

Name: Pinto
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Cherry brandy; 22.5 ml Fernet liqueur; 10 ml Lemon juice; 2 dash Aromatic bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Cherry (brandy) liqueur
³⁄₄ fl oz	Fernet Branca liqueur
¹⁄₃ fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Pinto contains 208 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
18.67% alc./vol. (37.35° proof)
15.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Recipe adapted from the 1934 book Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars.

PINTO
2/3 Cherry Brandy
1/3 Fernet Branca
Dash Lemon Juice
Dash Angostura Bitters
Glass No. 2. Shake.
Pioneers of Mixing at Elite Bars, 1934

Review

Rich cherry fruit and bittersweet herbal notes freshened with lemon.

Cherry Heering Liqueur 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Fernet Branca 375ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
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Angostura Aromatic Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Aromatic Bitters image

$3.10 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Kym Harding 1y

I especially enjoy sour cherry cocktails, and the Fernet Branca adds complementary interest and complexity. Nice.

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