Hardy Grunter

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Photographed in an Essence Cocktail Bowl 31cl

Ingredients:
2 oz Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry
3⁄4 oz Strucchi Rosso Vermouth
1⁄4 oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
  3. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 5/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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Review:

Medium-dry sherry lightly sweetened and aromatised with sweet vermouth and maraschino liqueur. If you prefer a tad drier, then sub 15ml / ½oz of amontillado sherry for fino sherry. Or do like we do, and mix 50/50 amontillado and fino.

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History:

Created in 2020 by Neil Grayshon as "a nice way to help with an inventory problem." Neil's original recipe calls for 2oz Delicado amontillado, ¾oz Discarded vermouth, and ¼oz Luxardo maraschino.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Hardy Grunter contains 117 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1 standard drinks
  • 14.96% alc./vol. (14.96° proof)
  • 13.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Thierry Vandevelde’s Avatar Thierry Vandevelde
21st November 2024 at 16:08
Very good sherry based cocktail. Mixing different sherries depending on how dry you want this to be is a welcome proposition.
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Yorey C’s Avatar Yorey C
3rd February 2024 at 23:48
Don Benigno | Rivata ... havent found a good use of sherry until now, this was very good, has a nice slightly tangy "pop" to it, im assuming from the luxardo, usually sherry has just been kinda dull and sweet to me but this was good
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