Mix This: Blood & Sand
October 5th, 2011 — 5:29pm
Blood & Sand
3/4 oz Blended scotch
3/4 oz Cherry Herring brandy
3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
3/4 oz fresh squeeze OJ
Build ingredients in a mixing glass, shake with ice, strain into a coupe. Orange twist garnish.
There are very few scotch based cocktails throughout history, but of the few out there this one is our favorite. Blood and Sand is a scotch based cocktail first seen in the 1920′s. It was named after Rudolph Valentino’s bullfighter movie “Blood and Sand”. It first appears in print in “The Savoy Cocktail Book” circa 1930.
Lauren Wong, Bartender, Golden Gopher