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Iron & Sand

Name: Iron and Sand
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

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (7)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

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

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Iron & Sand contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1 standard drinks
14.15% alc./vol. (28.31° proof)
13.7 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

History

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

More cocktails by Simon Difford

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.

Variations/similar cocktails

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Blood and Sand (classic recipe)
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Perfectly Straight Blood & Sand.
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Ian Fenton 2y

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 2y

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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Makes a minimum of 33 cocktails.
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