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Doubloon

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (28)
Doubloon image
Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
1 1⁄2 fl oz Lustau East India Solera Cream Sherry
3⁄4 fl oz Overproof aged pot still rum (high-ester 4-6 years old)
3⁄4 fl oz Amaro Montenegro

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How to make

Glass

Photographed in an UB Ginza Old Fashioned 10.5oz

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

  1. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

  1. EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
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Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

  • 1.6 standard drinks
  • 24.21% alc./vol. (48.43° proof)
  • 21.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

Adapted from a recipe created in 2021 by J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails.

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Review

Rich Spanish cream sherry, pungent Jamaican rum and Italian bittersweet amaro are unlikely bedfellows but combine harmoniously in this late-night sipper.

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Comments & Discussion

Vaclav Alex Kyslik
Made this one with Smith&Cross, Amaro Nonino (a common sub), and Fernando de Castilla Amontillado sherry, was pretty good. The Amontillado is little drier so it needs a kick from extra grape molasses to match cream sherry, it's a good bar hack. A great cocktail!
score: 1
Simon Sedgley Premium Member
Pretty dull and insipid fare. Another algorithmic cocktail from Mr Clapham. It is intuition and imagination that give birth to great cocktails. You'd think we would have learned by now. No more Mr Claptrap (as Dickens might have named him)!
score: 1
Calvin Grant Premium Member
Excellent with Smith & Cross and amaro Santoni. Especially as the ice melted.
score: 1
Yorey C
tried with myers... not so good. goslings next time
score: 1
Yorey C
made with rl seales. delicious and light and smooth and rummy. good shine for the montenegro
score: 1
James Casswell
Really enjoyed this - good enough that I think I may need to permanently keep a half bottle of cream sherry about the house.
score: 1
Frederic D. Premium Member
A very good drink indeed. Don't skip the orange twist on this one, it really elevates and brightens the drink.
score: 1
Avery Garnett
That is a /very/ interesting taste. It is, as you expect, Jamaican funk but that closes to the sherry notes I still to this day associate with my great-aunt's trifle. A lot less bam bam bam rum funk than I was expecting.
score: 1
Graham Taylor
Well, I made this with an olorosso sherry from Sainsbury's, something labelled 'Jamaican rum' I found in my in-laws booze cabinet and 'Fernet Hunter' which kind of tastes like a reined in, drinkable, angostura bitters. Which probably makes this a completely different cocktail, but hey, it came out quite light and dry and fresh, so I'm happy. Maybe it's a 'Nonbloom'
score: 2
George Ireland
Tried this with Lustau Cream Solero sherry from Mark's & Spencer. Fantastic.
score: 2

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