The Jabberwocky cocktail is a modern adaptation of the drink the Jabberwock
from the famous Savoy Cocktail book. We've mentioned this book in a few of
our other episodes perhaps check out this video if you'd like to know more about it.
This drink was recently introduced to me by my local here in
Fitzroy the Black Pearl and has become my absolute go to nightcap for the
summer months because it contains my one true love sherry.
and is sophisticated and complex yet still light.
I've only just discovered it and I'm very happy to share it with you too.
Now we're gonna get our lemon twist garnish ready first
you can also take the initial cut off with a peeler that's a little bit easier
for you, I like to trim it down when it's going in a little coupe because it just
looks a little bit more elegant. Then we're gonna go with two dashes of orange bitters
this one is Regan's but Fee Brothers or
Angostura make really good ones as well.
20 mils of Lillet Blanc.
This is an aromatized and fortified wine. It's pretty soft and floral has a lot of
really nice round citrus flavors in there.
Any Bianco vermouth pretty much can be substituted in, but you do want to keep
it something that's pretty light in flavor because otherwise it's gonna kind
of overpower the other ingredients in the cocktail.
This is a cocktail where everything is equal part so you want everything to
kind of work in harmony and nothing to overshadow the rest of it.
20 mils of Manzanilla sherry. This is from La Goya. Manzanilla basically is the same grape
varietal and made in exact same way as Fino sherry but just made on the
coast of Spain, so Sanlucar de Barrameda and that just gives it a
bit more of a kind of a saline quality which I find really interesting.
It's probably my favourite style. The word Manzanilla itself actually means
chamomile and it has a lot of those kind of floral notes going on.
Not your grand mother's sherry.
And 20 mils of gin.
I've stuck with the Spanish theme. I do tend to find the ingredients that come
from the same place always work well together. So this one Gin Mare is from Spain,
it uses a lot of Mediterranean botanicals
so including Seville oranges, which gives it a nice roundness that works with
everything else going on in the drink, but also things like thyme, rosemary and
olives which give it a little bit more of a savory edge which i think is one of
the things that makes this drink so interesting. Now we're going to fill our
mixing glass with as much ice as we can fit in there you're, gonna stir it around
by popping your bar spoon in and pushing the ice around with the back of the barspoon
against the inside of the mixing glass. Now with this one both the Lillet and
the sherry are not super high ABV it's really only the gin that's in there as
sort of hard liquor, so it doesn't actually need heaps and heaps of dilution,
you do want to keep a little bit of viscosity in the texture of it.
So I'm just kind of waiting until I can start to feel it getting cold.
Give it a little taste.
If it makes you smile then it's all good. Then use your julep strainer
to hold the ice back in the mixing glass and strain into your coupe.
Take your twist and give it a fold over the top of the drink to get all of the
nice oils on the surface.
Pop your twist in your glass and you're ready to go.
The Jabberwocky, my absolute favorite right now.
So now you know.
Now before I give you a rundown on how this beauty tastes don't forget to subscribe,
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favorite sherry cocktail is in the comments below.
It's just got so much going on in here I know I've talked about this before but for most is such a
wonder ingredient because you're basically getting like you know all of
the levels of citrus, herb and spice in there and backed up by that really savory
Gin just makes it super interesting. It's good because it's kind of like a
martini but a little bit lower ABV so it is one that maybe if I've had a few and
then towards the end of the evening want to rein it in a little bit it's a it's a
pretty good go-to for that as well.
Although I could drink five so I'm not really sure if that logic stands.