If you ’re new to the peaty waters of Scotch cocktails , the Blood and Sand is a bang-up means to get your toes pixilated . As one of the very few classical Scotch cocktail , it stands alone for its strange factor — and the col in its story .
On paper , the formula does n’t make much sense . It call for equal voice orange juice , mellifluous vermouth , rich cerise liqueur , and Scotch . It sound like it would be an expensive , unbalanced calamity , but somehow , by shaking it together , it works . And thanks to the huge variety of sweet vermouths and scotches useable , its flavor can range from delicate to hauntingly smoky .
Unlike its changeable look profile , its history is more aboveboard . The cocktail is mentioned by name in the humorous 1926 travel guideA Cocktail Continentale , but its recipe was n’t publish until the 1930 version of Harry Craddock’sThe Savoy Cocktail Book . It was most likely create in London in the mid-1920s . In 1922 , a silent , black - and - snowy motion-picture show titledBlood & Sandstarring Rudolph Valentino was relinquish . Valentino plays a poor Spanish male child who becomes a successful bullfighter , descend in dear with two fair sex , and meets a tragic end . The cinema was enormously successful , and a bartender likely try on to capitalise on the movie ’s recognizable name to sell drinking .
After its initial popularity , the cocktail fade from relevance until the mid-1990s , when master mixologist Dale DeGroff rediscovered it . Wherever it snuff it , we ’re beaming it ’s back .
Hit The Lab
Blood & SandModified fromThe Savoy Cocktail Book
3/4 oz orange juice3/4 oz Italian vermouth ( sweet vermouth)3/4 oz cherry red brandy ( Heering is closest)3/4 oz Scotch whiskey
measure out all ingredients into a shaker atomic number 50 . bestow ice and shake vigorously for 15 - 18 second . Strain into a chilled cocktail drinking glass .
Blood and Sanguinello
¾ oz Glenfiddich 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky¾ atomic number 8 Solerno Blood Orange Liqueur¾ oz Lillet Rouge¼ oz fresh pinkish grapefruit juice½ oz sassy lemon juice4 Luxardo Maresca cherries½ testicle white2 smash Regan ’s orange bitters
Muddle cerise in the bottom of a cocktail shaker . Add all ingredients to the shaker and judder vigorously without ice rink for 15 - 18 seconds . lend methamphetamine and rock well again . Strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with a helix of orange zest .
