Name: Few Words
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Mezcal; 30 ml Cherry brandy liqueur; 10 ml Aperol (orange-red aperitivo); 3 Peychaud's / Creole bitters

Serve in an

Old-fashioned glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass (preferably over block ice).

1 1/2 fl oz	Del Maguey VIDA mezcal
1 fl oz	Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur
1/3 fl oz	Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo
3 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
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Cherry Heering cherry brandy liqueur, 70cl

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£ 9.25 £ 0.71 per cocktail, makes 13

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Review:

This lightly spiced mezcal-laced and cherry flavoured cocktail works equally well as an aperitif or digestif.

History:

Created 2018 by Alexey Poltavskiy at Club No. 43, Phuket, Thailand, this cocktail earned him a place in the London final of the Heering Classics Competition.

Nutrition:

One serving of Few Words contains 225 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
27.19% alc./vol. (54.38° proof)
23.4 grams of pure alcohol

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