Palmetto

Happy Friday everyone! Tonight’s cocktail is perfect for this wonderful Summer evening – the Palmetto. Typically this drink is made with white rum and dry vermouth… and from what my research found, the resulting drink is barely drinkable. Well, we can’t have that here on Cooking-4-One, can we? So I opted to follow the research and use an aged rum and sweet vermouth. The resulting rum variation of a Manhattan works nicely and I even give it a nice little tweak. I would have thought adding sweet vermouth to a sweet liquor like rum would end in disaster, but it doesn’t… especially with my special ingredient, Galliano Ristretto. For this cocktail, I would use a rum you enjoy sipping straight like a scotch or whiskey and go with a quality vermouth. Your efforts will be rewarded. Trust me, ok?

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Palmetto

Prep time: 5 mins

Total time: 5 mins

Serves: 1

Ingredients

1½ oz aged rum (like Kirk and Sweeney 12 year)
1½ oz sweet vermouth (Carpano Antica)
⅕ oz Galliano Ristretto
1 - 2 dashes orange bitters
orange peel for garnish

Instructions

Chill a martini or highball glass.
In a shaker, add ice, rum, vermouth, Galliano Ristretto and bitters.
Stir or swirl to chill thoroughly.
Strain into chilled glass and garnish with orange twist.

Notes

The basic recipe is from RumDood. Thanks Matt for information on this delicious drink!

Chill a martini or highball glass. In a shaker, add ice, rum, vermouth, Galliano Ristretto and bitters. Stir or swirl to chill thoroughly. Strain into chilled glass and garnish with orange twist.