Name: Arkwood
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Fino sherry; 45 ml Dry vermouth; 5 ml Gomme syrup; 2 dash Aromatic bitters

Arkwood
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₆ oz	Gomme syrup
2 dash	Angostura Aromatic Bitters

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

THROW (or stir) all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry, Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Aromatic bitters contribute massively to the flavour and hue of this vinous aperitivo. If you like your cocktails bone dry then halve the volume of gomme syrup.

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Variant:

Bamboo; Adonis; Armour

History:

The Arkwood Cocktail first appears in the Anonymously written 1895 Bartender's Guide published by The Berner-Mayer Co..

Arkwood Cocktail.
Angostura bitters 2 dashes, gum 2 dashes, ½ sherry ½ vermouth.
The Bartender's Guide, 1895

ARKWOOD COCKTAIL.
LARGE BAR GLASS. – Put in some cracked ice, two dashes bitters, two dashes gum, ½ wine-glass Sherry, ½ wineglass Vermouth. Stir and strain into cocktail glass.
Fancy Drinks, 1902

ARKWOOD COCKTAIL
Large bar glass. – Put in some cracked ice, two dashes bitters, two dashes gum, ½ wine glass Sherry, ½ wine glass Vermouth. Stir and strain into cocktail glass..
Harry Todd, Mixer's Guide, 1933

Nutrition:

One serving of Arkwood contains 103 calories

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
12.46% alc./vol. (12.46° proof)
11.9 grams of pure alcohol

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