Name: Iron and Sand Cocktail
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Scotch whisky; 22.5 ml Ferro China; 22.5 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 22.5 ml Orange juice

Iron & Sand Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
³⁄₄ oz	Blended Scotch whisky
³⁄₄ oz	Ferro China Baliva
³⁄₄ oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
³⁄₄ oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This dark bittersweet aperitivo also works well when served on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass. A riff on the classic Blood & Sand, made distinctive by the use of Ferro China.

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Variant:

Blood and Sand (Difford's recipe)
Blood and Sand (classic recipe)
Velasco and Sand
Gringo's Blood & Sand
Peat, Blood, Sweat & Sand/a>
Bloody Blood & Sand
Perfectly Straight Blood & Sand.
Dutch Blood and Sand
Wood Sap & Sand

History:

Created March 2018 by yours truly at The Cabinet Room in London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Iron & Sand Cocktail contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
14.15% alc./vol. (14.15° proof)
12.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Ian Fenton

11th October 2023 at 08:29

I have to try this later (I ran out of oranges), but I ended up here because I had a different idea - Blood & Iron, with the Ferro-China in place of the vermouth. I’d love to know if anyone has tried making it.

Ian Fenton

15th October 2023 at 10:43

For the benefit of anyone following in my footsteps, I tried the Iron & Sand as above, and an equal parts of Scotch:Baliva:Luxardo Sangue Morlacco:Orange Juice (and tried it again with blood orange juice).

Maybe it’s the vermouth (a friend convinced me to try Cinzano; I normally use Martini and prefer it to Cinzano), but I felt the Iron & Sand lacked depth of flavour in comparison. The Blood & Iron is up there with the original, although maybe a tiny bit on the sweet side and could do with an extra bit of Scotch (and maybe 10mL of peated).

My favourite remains the Cynar substitution (for vermouth) on the Bloody Blood and Sand.

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