Amontillado
Amontillado

Amontillado Sherry Cocktails

Amontillado sherry suits both shaken and stirred cocktails and mixes well with white or dark spirits, especially rum, gin, genever, and mezcal. Amontillado tends to mix harmoniously with bitters, bitter liqueurs, and amari, as well as with anything featuring vanilla, toffee, caramel, and baking spices.
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A. Ale (Amontillado & Ginger Ale)

Simply amontillado sherry and ginger ale, as the name suggests, but so much more than that.
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Adonis

Some describe the Adonis as The sweet version of the Bamboo but that hardly does this brilliant vintage aperitivo/digestivo, that's off-dry and aromatic
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Andalusian Buck

A 'Buck' is a tall spirit-based cocktail with ginger ale or ginger beer and lime juice. This particular Gin Buck is distinguished by also being based on
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Aston Martin

A riff on a classic Rolls Royce that's good when made with a dry gin but, arguably, is better based on an old tom gin.
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Atomic Cocktail

Cognac supercharged with vodka, rounded with sherry and invigorated by champagne. Handle with care.
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Añogo

Creamy but not sweet with tequila character shining through. (Añogo is Spanish for 'yearn'.)
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Barbara West

Your choice of amontillado sherry may dramatically affect the balance of this gin and sherry sour. Choose well and you're in for a treat.
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Better Half

Sherry-based and sherry-led, with vodka, wine and orange liqueur subtly and harmoniously contributing.
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Beverly Pickup

A dry, brandy-laced digestivo or late-night tipple.
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Crowned King

Gin-laced and citrusy with jammy apricot and subtle bitter almond.
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Dunhill's Special

A dry, spiritous and aromatic aperitivo. With a dry amontillado, this is a preamble Martini alternative, but with cream sherry, it's a velvet smoking jacket
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Dunlop Cocktail

A punchy dry aperitivo – sherry-influenced rum with a dash of bitters.
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Dunmore Cobbler

Blended scotch and sherry underpin this tangy fruit cobbler.
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Explorer 'Martini'

The choice of sherry greatly impacts the Explorer. Made with cream sherry, as per the original recipe, brings out the rich marzipan notes in the amaretto
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Flor de Jerez

A rum-laced, sherry sour with a balancing splash of rich apricot liqueur.
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Glee Club Cocktail

Raspberry notes hit your palate first, followed by Chartreuse influenced sherry. Fruity yet spirit-forward and complex.
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Hardy Grunter

Medium-dry sherry lightly sweetened and aromatised with sweet vermouth and maraschino liqueur. If you prefer a tad drier, then sub 15ml / ½oz of amontillado
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Honeymentum

Honeyed gin with vinous sherry, minty freshness and delicate apple fruit.
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House No. 3

A quartet of fortified wines add complexity to this spirit-forward aperitivo. Delicious when made with a blended Scotch, but consider using an unpeated
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Jerezana

Pronounced 'Hera-Zana', this delicious stirred cocktail combines two sherries and two vermouths with faint vanilla richness balanced by pronounced orange
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Meditation

Sherry underpins this brilliantly balanced cocktail with delicate herbal fruity notes.
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Mexican Monk

A dry and boozy tequila-laced aperitivo/digestivo.
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Midnight Manhattan

A generous slug of amaro replaces dashes of aromatic bitters in this bittersweet, Sweet Manhattan. Also suited to being served on the rocks.
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Moon Cocktail

Gin and sherry combine harmoniously in this stirred boozy cocktail with a honeyed touch of jammy peach.
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Old Barrel

Rye whiskey spice, herbal liqueur complexity and vinous sherry sit alongside each other in a harmonious trinity with dashes of aromatic bitters and lemon
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Pink Mist

Softy bittersweet aperitif with zesty bergamot.
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Pizzicato Passage

Honeyed bittersweetness with bitter chocolate and delicate enlivening chili heat. A tasty and enlivening after-dinner digestivo.
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Quotidien

Rum agricole fortifies sherry to produce a spirituous aperitivo or after dinner/late night sipper.
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Robert Frost

This complex cocktail is equally enjoyable as an aperitivo or after-dinner digestivo. If enjoying as an aperitivo, then consider using equal parts fino
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Rusty

Sherry and rum combine harmoniously with the smoky Islay malt highlighting spicy notes.
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Señor Santoni

This combination of bittersweet liqueur, cachaça and sherry is polarising. I like it! I created it; but I can see that many, perhaps the majority, will
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Sheroni

Bittersweet and nutty.
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Sherry Mary

This is a cocktail that proves sherry is great for brunch, or indeed anytime.
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Sherry Wood

Gin and sherry enriched by maple syrup and sharpened with a little balsamic.
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The Bomb

A sherry-led aperitif cocktail. Don't be put off by its murky appearance.
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The Clansman

A Godfather based on peated scotch whisky in place of blended scotch and with a splash of sherry to accompany the amaretto in the classic recipe.
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The Neutral Ground

Sweet Manhattan-like with sherry and spiced notes.
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Toffee Negroni

There's no toffee in this Toffee Negroni in the same way there's no coffee in the Coffee Cocktail yet both drinks are aptly named and delicious.
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Towser the Mouser

An after-dinner/late-night sipper which benefits from a split whisk(e)y base and similarly split fortified wines and liqueurs. Some will prefer served
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USS Wondrich

A tiki-inspired riff on the classic Adonis with chocolate orange liqueur. (If a touch too rich for your palate, then split the sherry to equal parts fino
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Walter Mondale

A delicious spirit-forward honey, pear and delicately citrusy late-night sipper balanced and made interesting by underlying sherry.
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Zee Dee

Aged rum and sherry with a delicate hint of apple fruit.
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Lustau Manzanilla Papirusa

A bone-dry Manzanilla aged (for an average of five years) under a veil of yeast called flor in the cool, humid, salty air of Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a
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Lustau Jarana Fino Sherry

Aged for an average of 4 years under flor at Bodega Las Cruces in Jerez de la Frontera, where the inland climate produces a more rounded and fuller style
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Lustau Amontillado Los Arcos Sherry

Aged for an average of eight years with half of the period under flor and half in contact with oxygen, in Bodega Emperatriz Eugenia in Jerez de la Frontera.
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Lustau Palo Cortado Península

A 100% Palomino sherry aged for 12 years in Bodega la Emperatriz Eugenia in Jerez de la Frontera.
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Lustau Oloroso Don Nuño

A dry (not sweetened before bottling) oloroso aged, following oxidative ageing, for 12 years in Bodega La Campana in Jerez de la Frontera.
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Lustau East India Solera Sherry

Each wine in this cream sherry (Oloroso and Pedro Ximénez) is matured separately in its solera for 12 years.
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Lustau San Emilio Pedro Ximénez

Made with Pedro Ximénez grapes that have been sun-dried after picking until raisin-like. Fermentation of these grapes is halted to maintain natural sugars
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