Name: Country Life No. 2
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Bourbon whiskey; 10 ml OP high ester aged pot still rum; 10 ml Aged Jamaican rum; 30 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

1 1/3 fl oz

Bourbon whiskey

1/3 fl oz

Overproof aged pot still rum (high-ester 4-6 years old)

1/3 fl oz

Jamaican-style aged blended rum with funk

1 fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)

2 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into ice-filled glass (preferably over a large cube or chunk of block ice).

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Country Life No. 2 contains 195 calories

Alcohol content:

1.9 standard drinks
28.74% alc./vol. (57.48° proof)
26.1 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

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Comments & Discussion

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Jonathan Goldthorpe 10w

I loved this one. Made it with rye and flor de Cana rum with orange and angostura bitters. Delicious and no element overpowering

Vince Whitacre 12w

So... I'm not gonna say I'm a better bartender than Sam MFing Ross, far from it... but this didn't speak to me.

Neither did the original, though it was a little bit closer.

Both were *almost there*, though. So I made it this way:

1 1/2 oz bourbon
3/4 oz aged Jamaican rum
1/2 oz Amontillado sherry
1/4 oz Carpano Antica
1 barspoon ginger syrup
with oils from lemon *and* orange expressed over the final product.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 12w

At first sip this was a bit 'thin' for us. We thought that it might open out as it warmed. But not really. At a bit of a loss, we decided to add 2.5ml Falernum. For us, this helped to harmonise the drink but maybe there are better solutions.