Sound of Silver
30ml rye whiskey (Bulleit)
30ml apple brandy (Somerset Cider Brandy)
15ml falernum (John D. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum)
7.5ml Campari
2dsh rosemary bitters
Stir ingredients over ice and strain into a tumbler containing one large rock. Garnish with an expressed lime twist.
A recipe I stumbled across on PUNCH. As it is so rarely seen, any recipe calling for a lime twist intrigues me, and considering the ingredients here - rye whiskey and apple brandy a la the Diamondback, rosemary and amaro - making one was inevitable.Â
The base split saw that this started with the familiar Diamondback bite, but lighter. Initially sweet and subtly herbal, ti develops into a light yet complex flavour as the spices and herbs meld together, finishing with the usual sharpness of Campari, albeit the falernum seems to smooth it over.
The original calls for Gran Classico rather than Campari, and a rosemary tincture rather than bitters.Â
Jane Danger, Mother of Pearl, NYC, USA, 2017.














