Name: Gringo's Blood & Sand
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Tequila anejo; 22.5 ml Cherry brandy liqueur; 22.5 ml Vermouth - Rosso/rouge (sweet) vermouth; 22.5 ml Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist (discarded) & Luxardo maraschino cherry

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Patrón Añejo tequila
3/4 fl oz	Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur
3/4 fl oz	Martini Rosso sweet vermouth
3/4 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)
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Patrón Añejo tequila, 70cl

£ 56.95 £ 3.67 per cocktail, makes 15.5 Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur, 70cl

£ 22.45 £ 0.72 per cocktail, makes 31 Martini Rosso sweet vermouth, 75cl

£ 10.45 £ 0.32 per cocktail, makes 33

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Review:

A Blood & Sand made with tequila. A classic Scotch whisky based Blood & Sand is made with equal parts of all four ingredients, but the cherry brandy, vermouth and orange seem to overwhelm tequila when used in place of Scotch, hence the much higher proportion of spirit in this riff.

Variant:

Velasco And Sand (a mezcal-based Blood & Sand

History:

Created in February 2017 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room in London, England.
Blood & Sand history and other variants

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Nutrition:

One serving of Gringo's Blood & Sand contains 211 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
19.19% alc./vol. (38.38° proof)
21.6 grams of pure alcohol

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