November's Perfect Serve - The Rob Roy

The Perfect Serve will titillate your tastebuds with a delicious whisky cocktail featured every month...

A classic cocktail, most origin stories for the Rob Roy attribute its creation in 1894 with the release of an operetta based on Rob Roy’s life. There have been other suggestions to its origins, with a similar recipe published in a London bar guide in 1882. This is a cocktail that has really stood the test of time!

Similar to a Manhattan, the cocktail might sometimes be called a 'Scotch Manhattan' but this simplifies what is actually a broader and potentially more varied drink, due to Scotch providing a more complex base than Rye or Bourbon.

Ingredients

• 50ml Ardnamurchan AD/ Single Malt
• 25ml Cocchi Vermouth Di Torino
• 2 dashes Regans’ Orange Bitters

Method

• Add all ingredients to an ice-filled mixing glass.
• Stir to chill then strain into a chilled Nick and Nora or coupe glass.
• Garnish with a Maraschino cherry.

Pick up a ready-made Rob Roy from The Good Spirits Company, or online.

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