Quarter Deck
Recipe:
- 60ml aged rum
- 25ml P.X. sherry
- 7.5ml fresh lime juice
Shake everything on ice until sufficiently chilled, fine strain into a prechilled cocktil glass. Garnish with a lime zest or dried lime wheel.
A highly aromatic and complex drink made from just three ingredients and in a ratio that I love and would like to see more often. Namely with just a hint of citrus accompanying an aged spirit in the base, and there are many preparation methods and ratios to be found online, just as an example the blogger Cocktailbart, Bar Vademecum und Difford's Guide.
I prefer the ratios you can find above, shaken, I find dried lime as a garnish more suitable than a fresh one. Shaking allows the sherry to blossom and project its aroma better. A great drink with body, a brilliant standard rum drink if the rum is well balanced, but also a great showcase to put your favorite sherry in the center. Molasses, sweet tobacco, raisins, fresh, small splashes of lime, but always only subtly acidic, a dream.
Source (Oldest Mention): Harry McElhone - „Harry“ of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails, p. 59
