Name: Vanessa Polk
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Aged rum (6-10yr); 22.5 ml Cherry brandy; 6 drop Chocolate bitters; 1 dash Aromatic bitters

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Caribbean blended rum aged 6-10 years

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cherry (brandy) liqueur

6 drop

Chocolate bitters

1 dash

Angostura Aromatic Bitters

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered Luxardo Maraschino Cherries.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Vanessa Polk contains 206 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
27.27% alc./vol. (54.54° proof)
18.6 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Conor Finlay 15w

Keep coming back to this. I've tried it with various aged rums, and they have surprising little effect; settled on Luxadro Sangue Morlacco; but the greatest effect is the choice of chocolate bitters. Using Fee Brother's Aztec bitters made this sing like Coca Cola, just don't over do the angostura.

Alex Powell 50w

Worked well with Appleton 12 and frederiksdal kirsebær. With that combination I find it almost a little austere for a post-prandial, a little dash of garnish cherry syrup got it just right. Lovely.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

I wanted to loathe this but I almost maybe love it. At the very least, it's a drink you must make for the public. Appleton Estate 8, Luxardo Sangue Morlacco, and Bittermens Xocolatl Mole. What can you do?

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

Worked lovely with El Dorado 8. It's like a delicious cherry chocolate praline.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

I love that description. I'm sold.

Chris Dimal 21w

Seconded for the description. Even with using Appleton Reserve, it really does feel like that.

Andy Parnell-Hopkinson 1y

I get the idea but Jamaican rum was too funky. Will try with Cuban next time.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

Which brand did you use?

Yorey C 1y

they should call it polker hands

andy nicholson 1y

I'm glad I'm not the only one who wondered this about the naming? Maybe the Doug Selbst?

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

A serious but also somehow fun cocktail. Perhaps it's the cherry and chocolate that lighten the mood. A bit timid at the specified volumes, so we up the rum to 60ml, the Heering to 30ml and add two more drops of the chocolate bitters. Fits nicely in our Nick and Nora glasses, which we think are much better suited to this cocktail than the recommended coupe.