Name: Islander
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 22.5 ml Scotch whisky; 5 ml Aniseed liqueur

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Strucchi Rosso Vermouth

³⁄₄ fl oz

Blended Scotch whisky

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Aniseed (anise) liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Islander contains 158 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
18.53% alc./vol. (37.07° proof)
16.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

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

Comments & Discussion

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v_0 1y

Hi Simon, can you tell me something about this glass? I tried searching with the image, but couldn't find anybrands or links.

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 1y

Kind of echoing some of the other comments (anise prominent, surprisingly delightful), but this combo was turned out nice: Cocchi di Torino, Dewar's White Label, Ricard Pastis.

Yorey C 2y

interesting that the pernod shows through so strong

Olga María Gómez Henderson 2y

It's a good cocktail, albeit it's a bit difficult to appreciate the whisky.

Jeremy Harrold 3y

So simple but an astounding cocktail.
Possibly one of the least expensive cocktails I have made in a long time as well!
I used Ricard, Cinzano Rosso and M&S 8 year blended whisky.

Thomas Wederus 4y

Lovely drink. I find good anise based cocktails to be hard to come by, so this was a great find.

Aimee Lysaght 4y

Added one 1/6 ounce of lemon juice to this and used Irish whiskey as my husband is from Ireland and we don’t have any scotch whiskey in the house lol! Was outstanding!

Luca Viviani Premium Member 6y

An excellent drink. Being out of Pernod, I replaced it with 5 ml Anisetta Meletti. This made the cocktail a bit too sweet for an aperitif, in my opinion. But I think this would make a great digestif.

Rohaan Matmary 6y

Aah! No worries. Thanks for replying. Would you remember what vermouth did he used for you? I am really trying to recreate this recipe. Sounds delicious

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

Sorry. No idea which vermouth but worth remembering that back then there were fewer vermouths available so a high probability that is was Martini.

Rohaan Matmary 6y

Hi Simon, Could you please shed more light on the history of this drink?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 6y

I've looked at notes area that accompanies each cocktail on our database and sadly it's blank. Pretty much all I know is that it's a recipe from gaz. It must date back at least 12 years and I can't remember if something he made for me, sent me, or I purloined from something he'd written. Sorry. Hopefully, my note keeping has improved.