Runaway Horses

1 oz Apple brandy (Aged like Laird's Bonded or Calvados)
1 oz Cardamaro
1 oz Amaro, Cappelletti Sfumato Rabarbaro (Sfumato or Zucca)
1 twst Grapefruit peel (As garnish)
Instructions

Stir with ice, strain into an old fashioned glass with ice, and garnish with a grapefruit twist.

History

I was inspired by the a drink from the 1934 Laird's recipe book on EUVS, and I decided to tinker. I recalled the apple brandy-Rabarbaro combination and the apple brandy-Cardamaro one from other cocktails, and I combined all three elements into an Apple Negroni-style equal parts cocktail. For a name, I decided to dub this one after a Yukio Mishima novel called Runaway Horses.

Cocktail summary
Posted by yarm on
Created by
Frederic Yarm, Boston, MA
Year
2020
Is the
author's original creation
Reference

https://cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com/2020/05/runaway-horses.html

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Comments

Good, but I preferred it with the addition of 1 oz. amontillado. Cardamaro was still sort of lost in the mix. I suspect Laird’s may work better than the calvados I used.

Undisputed 5 star. Hits the sweet and the bitter- evocative. You suddenly wonder where you are.