Witches' Blood

Name: Witches' Blood
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 dash Blood Orange Bitters; 30 ml Scotch; 23 ml Sweet Vermouth; 23 ml Strega; 15 ml Cherry Heering

A stirred, spirit-forward mix of Scotch and sweet vermouth. Strega adds herbal sweetness and Cherry Heering dark cherry fruit, with blood orange bitters to finish. Created by lesliec in 2020.

A Blood & Sand variation that adds Strega liqueur. It may have been inspired by a binge-read of The Dresden Files series.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Herbal

Smoky

Strong