Saturday Recipe

This sounds like it would pack a punch. We have the sherry and brandy, not the other ingredients. Pity, I would like to try it tonight.

Sherry Cocktail

Food & Wine
Contributed by Junior Merino
Makes 1 drink

Mexican-born mixologist Junior Merino balances flavours like a chef, creating classically inspired, invariably pretty drinks, such as this sherry-spiked riff on a brandy sour.

1. Ice
2. 1 ounce palo cortado or amontillado sherry
3. 1 ounce brandy, preferably Spanish
4. 1/2 ounce grenadine, preferably homemade
5. 1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
6. 1/4 ounce Cherry Heering or other cherry liqueur
7. 1 orange twist, flamed
8. 1 brandied cherry

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the sherry, brandy, grenadine, lemon juice and Cherry Heering and shake well. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish the drink with the flamed twist and the cherry.

Have a great weekend.