Name: Perfectly Straight Blood & Sand
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 15 ml Whisky - Scotch whisky (blended); 15 ml Whisky - Peated Scotch whisky; 15 ml Cherry brandy liqueur; 15 ml Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie; 15 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 15 ml Vermouth - Dry; 30 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist (discarded) & skewered Luxardo Maraschino cherries

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1/2 fl oz	Blended Scotch whisky
1/2 fl oz	Caisteal Chamuis peated scotch whisky
1/2 fl oz	Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
1/2 fl oz	Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth
1/2 fl oz	Dry vermouth
1 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
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Johnnie Walker Black Label, 70cl

£ 28.45 £ 0.61 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Caisteal Chamuis peated scotch whisky, 70cl

£ 40.75 £ 0.88 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur, 70cl

£ 23.95 £ 0.52 per cocktail, makes 46.5 Dolin Dry vermouth, 75cl

£ 16.25 £ 0.33 per cocktail, makes 50

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Review:

I'm usually a maximum of five ingredients in a cocktail kind-a-guy but this Blood & Sand riff with seven ingredients is balanced and tasty. If I were in Asia, where the number eight is lucky, then I'd have also used equal parts orange juice and blood orange juice to keep the number of ingredients lucky.

History:

A riff on the classic Blood & Sand cocktail created in August 2014 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room in London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Perfectly Straight Blood & Sand contains 187 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
18.65% alc./vol. (37.3° proof)
22.4 grams of pure alcohol

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