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West of India

Name: West of India
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Reposado tequila; 30 ml Cream sherry; 22.5 ml Amaro (e.g. Nonino); 15 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 7.5 ml Falernum liqueur; 1 dash Mole bitters

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Reposado tequila (100% agave)
1 fl oz	Lustau East India Solera Cream Sherry (chilled)
³⁄₄ fl oz	Amaro Nonino Quintessentia
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Crossfire Hurricane Jamaican Rum
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Falernum liqueur
1 dash	Mole bitters

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Retro Optic Coupette 15cl

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered maraschino cherry.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of West of India contains 225 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
24.54% alc./vol. (49.09° proof)
25.9 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Cream sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe created circa 2009 by Phil Ward at Mayahuel in Manhattan, New York City.

More cocktails by Phil Ward

Review

This cocktail's original recipe calls for a Demerara rum such as Lemon Hart 80°, and your choice of rum will greatly impact the final cocktail. Choose one with a little funk and a lot of character, and you'll have a great late-night sipper of a cocktail.

Patron Reposado Tequila 375ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
$26.99 $2.16 per cocktail Patron Reposado Tequila image

Lustau East India Solera Sherry 750ml - makes 25 cocktails
$27.99 $1.12 per cocktail

Amaro Nonino Quintessentia 750ml - makes 33 cocktails
$54.99 $1.67 per cocktail Amaro Nonino Quintessentia image

Velvet Falernum 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$17.99 $0.18 per cocktail Velvet Falernum image

$5.13 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 12.5 cocktails.
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Steven Jepson Premium Member 20w

Picked up a couple of bottles of Old Monk 7yr Blended rum in Shimla India (oak casked and a definite vanilla taste) for a mere £4.50 a bottle coming in at 42.8% and a nice bite to them!
What better drink to make with them than a West of India. A bit sweet so may switch the cream for a dry sherry and make it an even 3/4 for the first 4 ingredients but very tasty and definitely on the return list.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 32w

We think that this is what a La Vina becomes when it goes on holiday to, and lets its hair down in, Cancun. We notice that both Alex Day and Phil Ward have worked at Death & Co, so perhaps these two drinks are a sort of conversation between the two.

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