What’s shakin cocktail fans?
Welcome back to another episode of the Modern Bar Cart Podcast!
This week, we chat with DC bartender Chantal Tseng (@ShinobiPaws) to learn all about the strange and wonderful world of sherry and sherry cocktails.
During this really fun discussion with Chantal Tseng, some of the things we cover include:
Chantal is an amazing host and mixologist, so I really do hope that some of you make a pilgrimage to the Petworth Citizen & Reading Room (@PetworthCitizen)here in Washington, DC, where we recorded this episode and pull up a seat for her “Literary Cocktails” series, which takes place from 7:00pm to Midnight every Friday and Saturday in the Reading Room.
This week’s featured cocktail is the Bamboo cocktail, and this is a drink that we talk about at length later on in the episode.
Now, if you recall our vermouth interview with Kat Hamidi of Capitoline Vermouth, we spoke about one of her favorite cocktails, which was called the Adonis, which also contains both vermouth and sherry.
The difference between the Adonis and the Bamboo is basically the difference between a Manhattan and a Martini – and what I mean by this is that Manhattans tend to be dark, rich, and sweet, while Martinis tend to be dry and refreshing, even though both drinks follow a similar measurement paradigm when it comes to ingredient ratios.
To make the Bamboo cocktail, you’ll need:
To prepare the drink, you combine these ingredients in a mixing glass with ice, stir until well mixed and chilled, strain into a stemmed cocktail glass, and garnish with a nice orange twist.
Sherry is a type of fortified wine. This means that people take a grape base and then ferment it so that it reaches a certain ABV. Different sherry styles are the result of decisions made by the producer when it comes to aging, adding additional alcohol, or blending different bases.
For all dry sherries, the grape varietal used is a Palomino Fino, and for the dessert styles, Muscatel and Pedro Ximenez (PX) grapes are used.
A venenciador
The Adonis
Stir these ingredients over ice, strain into a coupe glass, and garnish with an expressed orange twist.
Sherry Cobbler
A Cobbler is any cocktail where you sweeten a spirit and serve it over crushed ice with seasonal fruit and/or mint.
Muddle some fruit in the bottom of a shaker, add your ice, sherry, and simple syrup, shake well, and serve over crushed ice with more fruit as a garnish.
A dry martini, a trinity, or a jungle. These are all cousins of the martini and the negroni.
I’d like to think that I’m the mixing glass because all sorts of different things go in, but it always comes out in a different form that is delicious.
Literary figures like Edgar Allan Poe or JK Rowling, and or even a contemporary author like Hanya Yanagihara (author of A Little Life).
Food is always the best way to first encounter sherry. All sherry is wine at the end of the day, and what goes well with wine? Snacks, olives, cheese. What’s wonderful about sherry is that it’s extremely food pairing friendly.
Featured Cocktail Background Music
Backbay Lounge Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
