Category Archives: Cherry Liqueur

Gin, Green Chartreuse, Maraschino Liqueur No comments

The Last Word

I had this prohibition-era cocktail for the first time in a restaurant in Chicago earlier this year and was well and duely impressed. So I had to try it for myself. After trying a couple of gins, I found that Gin Xoriguer, a grape-based gin from Mahón on Menorca, Spain, which has a distinctive Mediterranean feel to it of juniper, pine, herbs and citrus that combines well with the herbal taste of the Green Chartreuse, the maraschino cherry liqueur and the fresh lime juice.

¾ oz 22.5 ml Gin Xoriguer de Mahón, ABV 38%
¾ oz 22.5 ml Green Chartreuse
¾ oz 22.5 ml Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur
¾ oz 22.5 ml Fresh lime juice

Shake the ingredients with ice cubes and then double strain into a chilled coupé glass. Garnish with a slice of lime or even better a dried slice of lime.

Cherry Heering, Lime Juice, Orange Juice, Pomegranate Juice, Rhum Agricole, Tiki No comments

Lalau Cocktail – A messed up Aloha Cocktail

I basically made this cocktail by mistake, when trying to decide between making a Donga Punch or an Aloha Cocktail. The former is a cocktail from Dick Santiago’s personal notebook used whilst working at Don The Beachcombers in Hollywood and the latter is by Hank Riddle, 1970, who worked as a bartender at Don The Beachcomber in Palm Springs. Basically, I unintentionally mixed the two recipes and added fresh pink grapefruit juice to the Aloha cocktail. In a second attempt, I replaced the light white rum with the Martinique rhum agricole blanc used in the Donga Punch recipe. So try it and see if you like it. I’ve called it the Lalau, which means error or mistake in Hawaiian, using the Negroni Sbagliato (messed up or mistaken Negroni) as example.

½ oz 15 ml Clément Rhum Agricole Blanc, 50% ABV
½ oz 15 ml El Dorado Superior Overproof Demerara Rum 151, 75.5% ABV
½ oz 15 ml Fresh lime juice
½ oz 15 ml Fresh grapefruit juice
½ oz 15 ml Fresh orange juice
½ oz 15 ml Fresh pomegranate juice
½ oz 15 ml Sugar syrup
¼ oz 7.5 ml Cherry Heering Liqueur, 24% ABV
2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Shake the ingredients with ice cubes and then strain into a flute champagne glass.