Sharkbait’s Cocktail of the Week: Peacock Alley Martinez

Back to back weeks featuring drinks from Manhattan. We’re not making a Manhattan however.  We’re mixing up something a bit different. This week’s cocktail is a Peacock Alley Martinez from the Waldorf Astoria Bar Book by Frank Caiafa. I first heard of this magical concoction from the New York Times, and I keep coming back to it. Mainly because I usually have all of the ingredients in my bar at all times. It also helps that it is easy to make, and quite tasty:

2 oz. Ransom Old Tom gin or Greenhook Ginsmiths Old Tom Gin

1 oz. Martini & Rossi sweet vermouth

3/4 oz. Nolly Pratt extra dry vermouth

1/4 oz. Luxardo maraschino Liqueur

1 dash Angostura bitter

1 dash Regans’ Orange Bitters No. 6

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass. Add ice and stir for 30 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon peel.

This is a strong drink. It better be since it’s all booze. If you make or order this one, you’ll be sipping on it for a while. While looking at the recipe, you would think the combination of gin and two types of vermouth doesn’t seem like it would play, but it most certainly does. The gin (I used Bombay Sapphire) does not overpower the two vermouths (of which, both were Martini & Rossi). The maraschino liqueur adds a touch of needed sweetness to cut the twin vermouth attack, since there is such most definitely such a thing as “too much vermouth”. The color and flavor is reminiscent of a Manhattan. I would also garnish with a Luxardo maraschino cherry to compliment the liqueur that is already present in the drink.

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Sharkbait has not actually been bitten by a shark, but has told people in bars that he was for free drinks. Married to a Giants fan, he enjoys whisk(e)y, cooking, the Rangers, and the Patriots.
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

I may have the ingredients for this as well (cherry heering in lieu of maraschino). And lady BFC’s out of town, so maybe I should drink ALL the cocktails of the week mwahahaha

Dunstan

Just made one. I approve.

nomonkeyfun

Peacock Alley Martinez

“A Mexican at the Waldorf-Astoria?!?!?!??!?!?!??!!?!??!?!?!??!?! Maybe at one of those Vanderbilt hovels, but I never.”

-Mrs. Astor

Unsurprised

I’ve only had zero to two beers while watching GoT and almost no booze since Thanksgiving aside from that. I really should drink more. I should do a lot of things more.

ballsofsteelandfury

Withholding from booze is actually good for weight loss. I’m kinda going through that myself right now. I’d say keep going as long as you can.

Unsurprised

I have plenty of other ways to cheat and I’ve been gaining weight doing so, so that’s a good point.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I actually have all the ingredients I’d need for this. Of lesser quality than the recipe here, but otherwise this is something I could totally do.

I dunno, though, last time I tried a gin cocktail that didn’t include tonic or something else to dilute things…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCLfBlRTZe8

blaxabbath

There’s enough liquor in one of these to invalidate even a Patrick Peterson urine test!

ballsofsteelandfury

Stirred, not shaken.

– Bizarro James Bond