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Petanque cocktail

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (93)
Petanque cocktail image
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
2 fl oz Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1 fl oz Adriatico Amaretto Liqueur
2 dash Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
2 dash La Fée Parisienne absinthe

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How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.

Method

  1. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
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Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Petanque cocktail contains 165 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1 standard drinks
  • 15.6% alc./vol. (31.19° proof)
  • 14.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

Adapted from a drink created in 2014 by Andrew Bohrer at Mistral Kitchen, Seattle, USA, and named after the French game where hollow metal balls are thrown as close as possible to a small wooden jack ball.

Inspired by playing Petanque in France whilst sipping on pastis, I tried Andrew's original spec but with an additional float of absinthe. To be honest, I tried pastis first but the liquorice notes detracted from the cocktail. A couple of dashes of absinthe merge with the body of the cocktail to add harmonious additional complexity. Hope you agree.

Review

The game this drink is named after is French while the main ingredients are Spanish and Italian, but they do play Pétanque in the Basque region of Spain. However, both the creator of this drink and the Creole-style bitters used originate from the USA – perhaps it took a non-European to bring these ingredients - fino sherry and amaretto - harmoniously together.

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Comments & Discussion

Simon Sedgley Premium Member
Light as a feather yet delightfully tasty. Some cocktails just have a bit of magic about them. We used a Rutherglen aged dry flor which made the tasty tasty-tasty.
score: 2
Andre Derailleur Premium Member
Used a Spanish sherry, but naked amaretto from Altona, of all places. Lovely after dinner.
score: 1
Andre Derailleur Premium Member
Celebration of a dockers win!
score: 1
Simon Sedgley Premium Member
Any advice on how to reliably and consistently deliver a 'dash' of absinthe?
score: 1
Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member
I use a Japanese-style dasher bottle. Two dashes from this bottle = 1 dash.
https://diffords.shop/collections/accessories/products/cocktail-kingdom-screwtop-dasher-bitters-bottle
score: 1
Simon Sedgley Premium Member
Thanks very much. We'll try to find a local retailer that can supply us with something closely similar.
score: 1
Alex Spyrou Premium Member
This is a nice way to finish off a bottle of sherry and lovely after dinner.
score: 2
Jacques Gaudin Premium Member
This cocktail is so bizarre it had to have a French name. Avant-garde? Faux-pas? Comme-ci comme-ça? As far as I'm concerned nothing to write home about. Nothing wrong with a couple of pastis really 🌅 🇨🇵
score: 1
Morten Carlsbaek Premium Member
Straightforward to make, surprisingly pleasant - the taste of yellow leaves swirling to the ground.
score: 2
Larry DeGan
I had no Fino, so I substituted Amontillado sherry. I find the Pétanque delicious and complex, but light. And yes, it’s great on the rocks, or rather, one large rock. It will be nice to have a classy but lower ABV cocktail to offer my guests.
score: 3
Pawel Szyld
Nice coctail, i'll have to tired with just 2 drops of absinthe.
score: 2
Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member
Agreed. I reduced to 3 dash absinthe stirrred in. Really tasty drink. Perhaps try on-the-rocks.
score: 1

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