Close Enough For Jazz

2 oz Gin
3⁄4 oz Fino sherry (Or Manzanilla)
1⁄4 oz Honey syrup (1:1)
1 rinse Absinthe
1 twst Lemon peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into a coupe rinsed with absinthe, and garnish with a lemon twist.

History

After having a drink called Close But No Cigar (see link in "source reference"), I was inspired by the combination of Manzanilla sherry and honey in that Manhattan riff. I wondered how it would do in a Martini riff; I had used a 3:1 dry vermouth to syrup ratio in the As Perfect as a Limerick at Nahita, and I knew that it would come across like blanc vermouth. To round off the combination, I added an absinthe rinse instead of the inspiration's Peychaud's Bitters in the mix and the Scotch rinse, and in keeping close to the original in name, I dubbed this one Close Enough for Jazz.

Cocktail summary
Posted by yarm on
Created by
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Year
2022
Is the
author's original creation
Reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2022/02/close-enough-for-jazz.html

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