Cream sherry is an ingredient
I’ve seen in a number of cocktail recipes, but I assumed the name meant it was something
like Bailey’s. Not even close. As we know from previous cocktails like the
Bone Machine, the McKittrick, and the Trident, sherry is a dry white wine
that’s fermented, fortified with a neutral grape spirit, and then aged in
different ways to produce all sorts of amazing varieties. Cream sherry is created when a dry style of
sherry is blended with sweet Pedro Ximenez sherry or dessert wine. The result is dark, slightly sweet, and
smooth. The smoothness is supposedly how
cream sherry got its name, although the origin stories all clearly sound like a
drunk person made them up. Joaquín Simó of
Death & Co. created the Imaginary Grace in 2009. He apparently has a habit of naming cocktail
after song lyrics, with this one deriving from Modern English’s 1982 banger “I
Melt With You”. The nose on this drink
is nothing special, but on the sip it reveals itself to be many-layered and
super interesting. The sherry and bitters have chocolate and nutty notes that
build on the aged tequila base. My notes
say, “love, love, love”.
Recipe
1 oz cream sherry
0.5 tsp Carpano Antica sweet vermouth
0.5 tsp pear brandy
0.5 tsp agave nectar
1 dash Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters
1 dash angostura bitters
-Stir ingredients with ice. Strain into chilled coup or Nick & Nora. No garnish.
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