The blended flesh look of Amie & Bonnie's drink is über-Dexter, but I love the bloody red color of our cocktail. (Holy crap, I just figured out how to make an umlaut on my mac--is that only cool for people with German minors?) Anyway, I ended the Summer Cocktail series with a desire to experiment more with beer and wine cocktails, so the fall premiere of our favorite show seemed like a great way to use up some leftover Cabernet Sauvignon.
This might seem like a strange combination of ingredients, but it's inspired by the description of flavors on the back of our Brandy bottle: "warm, inviting flavors of vanilla cream, maple and old sherry." That screams Vanilla Cream Soda to me and it turned out to be a perfect pairing.
Ingredients:
Cabernet Sauvignon (used Chateau Ste Michelle Indian Wells)
Brandy (used E&J VSOP Superior Reserve)
Vanilla Cream Soda
In a red wine glass combine 1 oz Brandy, 2 oz red wine and 2.5 oz cream soda. If you add them in that order they'll mix themselves and be ready to drink. We chilled the cream soda but had the other ingredients at room temperature and enjoyed it as-is. I also think this would be great with all the ingredients chilled or served on the rocks.
I hate serving a drink without some kind of garnish but unfortunately time ran out. However, if you're serving this at a Dexter theme party we all thought this would be awesome with a gingerbread man impaled with a little appetizer knife. The flavor of the gingerbread would be amazing with the vanilla creme of the drink and appetizer knives are complete underutilized in general.
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