PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Chivas Regal scotch o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o 1 dash Hella Orange bitters or to taste Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in cocktail glass. Remarks: Tawny port defines the taste of this cocktail. It’s therefore sweet and a little oaky. Not too sweet but enough to make one think a citrus garnish might be nice. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Hennessey VS cognac o 2 ounces Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o 1 egg Garnish o grated nutmeg Method: 1. Shake without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Strain into a cocktail glass. 4. Garnish with grated nutmeg. Remarks: The intent was to create a coffee cocktail without the coffee. If you squint just right this might taste a little like coffee. We think it’s a tasty cocktail no

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Mount Gay XO rum o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce agave nectar o 1 whole egg Garnish o grated nutmeg Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Fine strain into a cocktail glass. 4. Garnish with nutmeg. Remarks: Finally, a delicious eggnog that can be made in small batches. It’s no longer necessary to wait until Christmas to shar

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Remy Martin VSOP cognac o ½ ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ¼ ounce Pierre Farrand Dry Curaçao o 1 ounce pineapple juice o ¼ ounce fresh lime juice o ¼ ounce grenadine Garnish o pineapple wedge Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a chilled cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with pineapple wedge (optional). Remarks: If you looked at this and said I bet this will taste

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Mount Gay XO rum o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce fresh lemon juice o ½ teaspoon superfine sugar o 1 egg white o Fever-Tree Premium Club Soda Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients except soda without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Double strain into a chilled collins glass. 4. Top with soda. Remarks: Based on the Chicago Fizz but different enough to warrant a nam

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Goslings Black Seal rum (151 proof) o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce fresh lime juice o ½ ounce fresh orange juice o 3 ounces pineapple juice o 1 dash Hella Ginger bitters o ½ ounce Honeysuckle and Black Pepper syrup* Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve over ice in a hurricane glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: This is not y

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Monte Alban mezcal o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce Bénédictine D.O.M. o ½ ounce St. Germain liqueur o 1 dash Hella Smoked Chili bitters or to taste Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: If you want to or have recently given up smoking, this cocktail may not

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ounces Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o champagne Garnish o grape or cherry Method: 1. Combine in a chilled flute. 2. Garnish with a grape or cherry. Remarks: This, perhaps not surprisingly, tastes like a 20-year-old port with bubbles. Which isn't such a bad thing, actually. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o ½ ounce Mount Gay XO rum o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old Garnish o lemon peel Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel. Remarks: This is a cocktail with body. We used bourbon, but rye is also an option. The port adds roundness and the rum provides depth to make this a cocktail yo

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Hennessy VS cognac o ½ ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ¼ ounce white Crème de Menthe o 1 ounce fresh orange juice o ½ ounce grenadine o ¼ ounce Simple Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) Garnish o rose petals Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a martini glass. 3. Garnish with edible rose petals. Remarks: This cocktail is hard to classify except to say that it is tas

PH factor:  10 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 2 ¼ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o 1 dash Woodford Reserve Spiced Cherry bitters o 1 bar spoon maple syrup Garnish o Woodford Reserve cherries Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Strain into a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with cherries. Remarks: Feels like a Manhattan with an axe to grind. . . .

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ¼ ounces Tullamore D.E.W. Irish whiskey o ½ ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o 1 ounce Honeysuckle and Pepper syrup* o 1 dash Angostura bitters or to taste o 1 egg Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients without ice. 2. Add ice and shake again to chill. 3. Fine strain into a cocktail glass. Remarks: Whether it’s St. Paddy’s Day, or not. Whether you’re Irish, or not. Whether you’re a drummer, or not

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 1 ounce Remy Martin VSOP cognac o 1 ½ ounces Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o 1 ½ ounces Blandy's 5-Year-Old Malmsey Madeira o 2 drops rose water o ¼ ounce Rose Petal Syrup (see: Syrups etc.) Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. Remarks: We would describe this as an exotic cocktail. Exotic is not a word we often use regarding cocktails but

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o ½ ounce St. Germain o champagne Garnish o several impaled blueberries Method: 1. Combine St. Germain and port in an ice-filled collins glass and stir. 2. Top with champagne. 3. Garnish with blueberries. Remarks: This is a full-bodied champagne cocktail. . . .

PH factor:  8.5 Recipe Ingredients:       Cocktail o 1 ½ ounces Woodford Reserve bourbon o 1 ounce Kahlúa o 1 ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old o 1 ½ ounces cream Garnish o freshly grated nutmeg Method: 1. Shake cocktail ingredients over ice. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish nutmeg. Remarks: This is a simplified version of the original recipe. We like it better and feel it that it is an excellent dessert or holiday cocktail. . .

PH factor:  9.5 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail o 3 ounces Bombay gin o ½ ounce Lillet Blanc o ¼ ounce Boulard Calvados VSOP o ¼ ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 20 Year Old Garnish o lemon twist Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in martini glass. 3. Garnish with lemon twist. Remarks: Purists maintain that a martini is gin and vermouth only. Some say if it’s in a martini glass, it’s a martini. This tasty cocktail

PH factor:  9.0 Recipe Ingredients: Cocktail       o ¾ ounce Johnnie Walker Red Label scotch o ¾ ounce Sandeman Tawny Porto 10 Year Old o ¾ ounce Manzanilla sherry o 1 dash Angostura bitters Garnish o lemon peel o Tillen Farms Merry Maraschino cherry Method: 1. Stir cocktail ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. 2. Serve up in a cocktail glass. 3. Garnish with lemon peel and cherry. Remarks: We have several cocktails that pair scotch and sherry. All