Yuri Beloti

This is a great cocktail, really simple and super effective. I felt like it actually gets better as it warms up a bit and the nutmeg infusion comes through more, so I’d serve it in a Nick & Nora or a similar glass to really get that effect.

In those proportions it tasted a bit sweet to me, so I added 5 ml of lemon juice and actually liked how it turned out.

Great cocktail. But you really need to be careful with the absinthe. ‘3 dashes’ is relative – even 1 ml more can throw the drink off balance. It’s better to control the dashes using a jigger. Up to about 3 ml of absinthe the cocktail was pleasant, but I’d recommend being careful going much beyond that, because the absinthe can become dominant.

My feeling was that doing the dilution in the glass made the flavor better, because it reduced the earlier dilution. They were two different cocktails. I get the sense that sherry is more sensitive to dilution.