Recipe
- 1oz gin
- 1oz dry vermouth
- 1oz sherry (any style you like, from dry like fino/manzanilla to sweet like Lustau East India Solera)
- 2 barspoons dry curaçao (~2tsp)
- Few drops (or spray) of absinthe
Stir everything together and garnish with an olive. Express the oils from a lemon peel over top for some extra oomph.
About
Wow, ok this is one of my new favorite cocktails, and whatdaya know, it’s an old classic. I discovered this drink at The Saratoga, where I was invited to check out the cocktails and food and man, I’m super impressed by the cocktail program there. Maybe it’s because I prefer less sweet drinks than most (i.e. Manhattans and Negronis are often quite sweet for my preference), but it’s actually super rare for me to find a bar where I feel like all the drinks are *just right* in sweetness (does anyone else feel this way?) Amazingly, The Saratoga delivered, and every single drink was so special and delicious.
Anyway, this was my fav drink from the night, and I had to recreate it at home! It’s the Dunhill, a drink from an early 1900s London bar. It’s definitely martini-esque, but much ‘friendlier’ and evokes borderline Negroni feels. Sherry was a popular cocktail ingredient (and drink in general) during the time period, and was prominent in many classic recipes before it fell into oblivion for almost a century until its recent revival in the modern craft cocktail movement. The original recipe doesn’t specify the the type of sherry used, so I experimented with both a dry and sweet one, and both were equally delicious! Use what you have on hand, and once that bottle of sherry is open, check out some other fun sherry recipes. Cheers to the long weekend!
