Whisky · Shake · Coupe · 5 min
Blood & Sand
Equal parts Scotch, cherry liqueur, sweet vermouth and orange juice: one of the few classics that puts Scotch with fruit, and it works.
What's in it
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Scotch whisky
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Cherry liqueur
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Sweet vermouth
- 22.5ml (¾ oz) Orange juice
- 1 Orange twist optional
How to make it
- Chill a coupe.
- Shake the Scotch, cherry liqueur, sweet vermouth and orange juice hard with ice.
- Double strain into the chilled coupe and express an orange twist over the top.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
The name is usually taken from Blood and Sand, the 1922 bullfighting film starring Rudolph Valentino, though no one has recorded who made the connection or first mixed the drink. A cocktail of that name is mentioned in the 1926 travel guide A Cocktail Continentale, and it was most likely created in London around then, but the equal-parts recipe first appeared in print in Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930. It then faded for decades until Dale DeGroff took it up again in the mid-1990s.
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