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Bamboo Cocktail (with Palo Cortado Sherry)

Name: Bamboo Cocktail (with Palo Cortado Sherry)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Palo cortado sherry; 22.5 ml Dry vermouth; 1 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (15)

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Lustau Palo Cortado Península Sherry
³⁄₄ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

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 Bamboo Cocktail (with Palo Cortado Sherry) contains 81 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
14.73% alc./vol. (29.46° proof)
10 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Palo cortado sherry, Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Bamboo Cocktail history.

Review

Dry, vinous, and best enjoyed as an aperitif.

Variations/similar cocktails

Bamboo Cocktail (Difford's 'classic' recipe) with 2 parts fino sherry to 2 parts split vermouths.
Bamboo Cocktail (Stuart's 1904 recipe) with 2 parts fino sherry to 1 sweet vermouth.
Bamboo Cocktail (Boothby's 1908 recipe) with equal parts dry vermouth and fino sherry, 2 dash orange bitters and 2 drops Angostura bitters.
Bamboo Cocktail (Savoy 1930 recipe) with 1½ parts fino sherry, ¾ vermouth and ¾ sweet vermouth.
Bamboo Cocktail (Joaquín Simó's recipe) with equal parts fino sherry and dry vermouth sweetened with a splash of sugar syrup.
Bamboo Cocktail (Difford's Perfect recipe) with 1½ parts fino sherry, 1 sweet vermouth and ¾ dry vermouth.
Bamboo Cocktail (with triple-sec) with equal parts fino sherry and dry vermouth with a splash of triple sec liqueur.

Lustau Palo Cortado Península 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$26.99 $1.64 per cocktail

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$1.68 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Comments & Discussion

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Minkus 2w

After a few attempts, I felt like I'd rather just drink the Palo Cortado... then I made one using Dolin dry (not my usual vermouth for bamboos), and with the help of some nice aged gouda, it really clicked. Dry, sophisticated, complex. Wonderful! Warrants more experimentation.

Samuel 46w

this cocktail is my true love.

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