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Cyva Martini

Name: Cyva Martini
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 45 ml Fino sherry; 7.5 ml Cognac (brandy); 2 dash Orange bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin (from freezer)
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry (chilled)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Cognac (brandy)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
2 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or pinch of salt

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Martini glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered green olive.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered olive.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Cyva Martini contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
22.83% alc./vol. (45.66° proof)
22.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Ted Saucier's 1951 book Bottoms Up

CYVA
By Franklin C. Edson, Prominent Yachtsman
½ jigger gin
½ jigger dry sherry
1 teaspoon cognac
2 dashes orange bitters
Ice
Stir. Strain into cocktail glass, and serve with pitted green olive.
Ted Saucier, Bottoms Up, 1951

Review

A fino sherry Fifty-Fifty Dry Martini distinguished by a splash of brandy.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$15.99 $0.97 per cocktail Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry image

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 192 cocktails
$13.99 $0.07 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$3.10 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Olga María Gómez Henderson 20w

Very tasty. It reminds me a bit of a stronger bamboo. The cognac softens the drink without sweeting it.

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