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Balmoral No. 2

Name: Balmoral No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Honey herbal liqueur; 40 ml Fino sherry; 1 dash Aromatic bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 1/3 fl oz	Honey herbal liqueur (e.g. Drambuie)
1 1/3 fl oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1 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

STIR all ingredients with ice.
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 Balmoral No. 2 contains 160 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
21.69% alc./vol. (43.38° proof)
17.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

In 1955, Jacinto San Feliu and Ángel Jimenez opened their Balmoral bar in Madrid, a bar regarded as one of the best in the city. This was their signature cocktail, originally with 60ml (2oz) oloroso sherry, 1oz (30ml) Drambuie and a dash of Angostura. Angel San José Marin saved this cocktail for posterity by adding it to the opening menu of Madrid's 1862 Dry Bar.

I'd not seen this sherry-based Balmoral before January 2025, when I came across it listed (with oloroso seco sherry) as the second cocktail in "The Classics" section in the 1862 Dry Bar's menu. Later the same evening. I was reacquainted with the Balmoral at Pictura in the Mandarin Oriental Ritz (made with fino sherry).

Review

Rich herbal whisky-laced liqueur dried and flavoured with fino sherry.

Variations/similar cocktails

Balmoral
Balmoral Martini

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Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

What a weird cocktail. It's so strange that I absolutely love it. The salt is absolutely crucial. The sherry takes the front and center, building the body and most of the flavor profile. You can get the scotch from the Drambuie but it's in the background, working with the salt to elevate the softer notes in the sherry.