Carmen Amaya

Ingredients

• Orange twist, for garnish
• Ice
• Dash orange bitters
• ¾ ounce Cointreau
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 ½ ounces Old Overholt rye
• ¾ ounce amontillado sherry
• + 1 more ingredients
• • 5 fresh, blemish-free basil leaves, plus 1 leaf for garnish

Chill one (6-ounce) cocktail glass. In a cocktail shaker, combine basil and sherry and muddle until leaves are bruised and slightly broken up. Add rye, lemon juice, Cointreau, and bitters. Fill the shaker with ice. Close the shaker and shake vigorously 20 times. Strain into the chilled glass,...

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