Name: Santorini
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 30 ml Scotch whisky; 7.5 ml Ouzo

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

1 fl oz

Blended Scotch whisky

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Metaxa Ouzo

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Santorini contains 176 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.87% alc./vol. (39.73° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Created in December 2014 by yours truly as an adaption of a drink called an Islander created by Gary "gaz" Regan which uses Pernod anise.

Santorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea and I was inspired to use a combination of whisky and ouzo due to being challenged with demonstrating the mixability of scotch whisky to a group of Greek bartenders in Athens.

Comments & Discussion

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Jeremy Harrold 24w

I like Ouzo so a ‘decent slug’ is fine by me :-)
I would either up the Ouzo and Whiskey or lower the vermouth.

Nick Stocks 1y

Cocktail bar in Santorini made an old fashioned with bourbon,vin santo wine and cherry bitters and it was very very good.

Richard Moore 3y

Upgraded my rating from 3.5 to 4.5 using Carpano Atinca vermouth. A reverse Rob Roy with a kick. Ouzo is hardly noticeable. But it’s different w/o it.

Matthew Tait 5y

Well that's the thing, I do like ouzo! But as you say it is such a pervasive flavour. I wonder if it might work best as a rinse, a la absinthe. Anyway, I do like the sound of the Greek Martini, thanks for the suggestion. I don't have any mastiha unfortunately. But I'll continue to experiment!

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Mastiha is another big-flavoured product but is delicious. Please let me know if you come across any great ouzo cocktails.

Matthew Tait 5y

I wanted to love this one, but couldn't quite manage it I'm afraid Simon! I didn't hate it by any means, but even at .25 oz I found the ouzo pretty dominant. Maybe a more robust vermouth than Martini might stand up to it better. I may try again with Punt e Mes and more scotch one day.

I do feel like there must a drink out there that can make really great use of ouzo! I'm not sure if this is quite the one though.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 5y

Ouzo has a huge pervasive flavour so I guess you need to like ouzo to like a cocktail with a decent slug of ouzo in it. My other attempt at a cocktail with ouzo is a Greek Martini.

Richard Elgar Premium Member 5y

I created this ouzo cocktail. It's alright, I think, as a highly adapted Pernod & Black, now the Greek & Black:
https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/7976/greek-and-black