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Petanque cocktail
The game this drink is named after is French while the main ingredients are Spanish and Italian, but they do play Pétanque in the Basque region of Spain...
Simon Sedgley
18th April at 13:26
Light as a feather yet delightfully tasty. Some cocktails just have a bit of magic about them. We used a Rutherglen aged dry flor which made the tasty tasty-tasty.
19th April at 10:43
Used a Spanish sherry, but naked amaretto from Altona, of all places. Lovely after dinner.
18th April at 13:03
Any advice on how to reliably and consistently deliver a 'dash' of absinthe?
18th April at 16:24
I use a Japanese-style dasher bottle. Two dashes from this bottle = 1 dash.
https://diffords.shop/collections/accessories/products/cocktail-kingdom-screwtop-dasher-bitters-bottle
https://diffords.shop/collections/accessories/products/cocktail-kingdom-screwtop-dasher-bitters-bottle
17th January at 18:48
This is a nice way to finish off a bottle of sherry and lovely after dinner.
8th July 2025 at 23:36
This cocktail is so bizarre it had to have a French name. Avant-garde? Faux-pas? Comme-ci comme-ça? As far as I'm concerned nothing to write home about. Nothing wrong with a couple of pastis really 🌅 🇨🇵
29th October 2023 at 02:09
Straightforward to make, surprisingly pleasant - the taste of yellow leaves swirling to the ground.
31st December 2021 at 23:04
I had no Fino, so I substituted Amontillado sherry. I find the Pétanque delicious and complex, but light. And yes, it’s great on the rocks, or rather, one large rock. It will be nice to have a classy but lower ABV cocktail to offer my guests.
2nd May 2020 at 19:31
Nice coctail, i'll have to tired with just 2 drops of absinthe.
2nd May 2020 at 21:51
Agreed. I reduced to 3 dash absinthe stirrred in. Really tasty drink. Perhaps try on-the-rocks.