Bamboo Cocktail Recipe
Building cocktails gives the bartender—including those who ply their trade at home—endless opportunities to experiment with spirits, modifiers, and mixers. Full-proof liquors like whiskey, gin, vodka, tequila, rum, and brandy often steal the spotlight, but your cocktails don’t always require such a boozy backbone. Lower-proof ingredients like vermouth and sherry can also shine.
Sherry cocktails, in particular, have gained popularity, with bartenders gravitating towards this underrated fortified wine. The Bamboo cocktail, a 19th-century classic, is an easy and delightful drink to assemble—stir, strain, and garnish with a lemon twist. Combining equal measures of dry vermouth and dry sherry with a couple of dashes of bitters, this cocktail is light, delicate, and perfect for sipping all day long.
Serves: 1
Prep time: 5 Minutes
Nutrition: 140 Calories
Ingredients
- Dry Sherry: 1 1/2 ounces
- Dry Vermouth: 1 1/2 ounces
- Angostura Bitters: 1 dash
- Orange Bitters: 1 dash
- Garnish: Lemon Twist
Method
- Combine Ingredients: Add the dry sherry, dry vermouth, Angostura bitters, and orange bitters into a mixing glass filled with cracked ice.
- Stir: Stir the mixture until well-chilled.
- Strain: Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
- Garnish: Garnish with a lemon twist.
Category: Drinks Cuisine: Cocktail
