The Last Time (AKA Stop Fiddling With My Drink)

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass...
1½	fl oz	Bacardi Carta Oro Rum
½	fl oz	Coconut rum liqueur
½	fl oz	Benedictine D.O.M.
½	fl oz	Fino sherry
4	drop	Vanilla Bitters

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How to make:

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

Garnish:

Square of white chocolate balanced on rim

Comment:

Richly flavoured and yet dry – rum and subtle desiccated coconut with monastic herbal sweetness dried by aromatic fino sherry and vanilla bitters.

About:

Created in April 2017 by Paloma Alos at the Cabinet Room, London, England. Named after she instructed yours truly (Simon Difford) to stop trying to make the drink she’d just created better.

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Coconut rum liqueur

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