
Best served in a whisky / rocks / old-fashioned glass
Vanderbilt
Type: Short Drink
Ingredients:
- 1 dash Angostura BittersFlavour enhancer made from herbs, spices and berries. Only a few dashes are added to cocktails so a bottle lasts a long time.
- 1 msr Cherry BrandyGrape brandy flavoured with cherries.
- 1 1/2 msr CognacFrench brandy distilled from white wine and matured in oak casks - VSO means very superior old; VSOP means very superior old pale; VVSOP means very very superior old (really!); XO means extremely old. Substitute: Brandy.
- 1 tspn Sugar SyrupMake your own sugar syrup by dissolving equal quantities of water and sugar before simmering gently for 2 minutes. Cool and store in a bottle or jug.
Method:
Fill a rocks glass with broken ice.
Add the ingredients to the glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
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