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Bamboo

By Kate Hawkings
Photo of a batch of Bamboo cocktail with glass wavy wallpaper. Vermouth and sherry cocktail.
Photo by Sarah Hogan

Mix up this sherry and vermouth cocktail as an individual drink on the rocks, or stirred over ice and strained if you can be bothered. Alternatively, mix up a batch in advance.

  

Recipes for the Bamboo cocktail vary wildly: the sherry is sometimes fino, sometimes amontillado or occasionally a costly palo cortado, while both sweet and dry vermouths appear, sometimes both together. Here I take my lead from Felix Cohen at his wonderful bar Every Cloud in London, whose taste I trust implicitly. Felix favors Martini Extra Dry or Lillet Blanc as the vermouth, while Harvey's amontillado is his sherry of choice.

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