- 1 oz Scotch
- 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
- 3/4 oz Liqueur de Pamplemousse Rose
- 1 oz Orange Juice
- 1 ds Orange Bitters
Homemade ingredients: sweet vermouth, does orange juice count? (No, it doesn't.)
Basically, I replaced the cherry liqueur with grapefruit liqueur. The result is quite nice. Now...
Recipe
Cooked Ingredients
- 750 ml white wine
- 20 cardamom pods
- 20 juniper berries
- 5 cloves
- 1 star anise
- 1 tsp rooibos
Crush the cardamom pods and juniper berries and break up the star anise by hand. Add the dry ingredients and the wine in a lidded pot and bring to a boil....
- 2 oz Rye
- 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
- 1/2 oz Cynar
- 1/4 oz Maraschino Liqueur
- Garnish: Cherry
Homemade ingredients: sweet vermouth, brandied cherry.
This Manhattan variation is one of my favorite cocktails. The recipe calls for Maraschino cherry syrup, but I like to skip the middle man and us...