Text: Mara de Miguel @by_marademiguel | Photography: @andrecontrerasphoto | Cover photo: At home, and with our wines, surprise your friends with some ‘Dakí’ cocktails. Would you like a sweet PX Espresso to wake you up? Isn’t it?
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Does it make you a good drink? a cocktail? But let it be ‘Daki’, a play on words that means “but let it be from here.” Well that. Cocktails with Montilla Moriles wines. We tell you how to do it in 5 recipes, from the legendary Bloody Mary, but with amontillado, to the popular Mojito, but flamenco.
Now that we are on special dates, it is a good time to expand new horizons and develop a new skill that will surprise your friends. How about you get your batteries on a liquid gastronomic level? Which will give you and yours a lot of satisfaction. Are you up for making cocktails with Montilla Moriles wines?
A nice bouquet of cocktails to kick off the fun universe of cocktails at home. Yes, drink responsibly.
Spending more time at home gives us the opportunity to be the bartender we always wanted to be. Thanks to a few easy tricks you can impress your friends when you post photos on your Instagram, after having made some drinks (long or short) with Montilla Moriles wines. And after having drunk them! That of course…
We present 5 recipes from the so-called Daki Cocktail Shop. Some are original creations and others are versions or revisions of traditional recipes in which some of the liquid elements have been exchanged for wines from the land of Córdoba. Montilla-Moriles wines are very interesting to use mixed or shaken, as James Bond would say. They give a special touch to those liquid creations where the palate will enjoy without equal. Well let’s go there.
The afternoon is ideal to enjoy a good Espresso Martini from Montilla: that is, with the sweet king PX.
My Espresso Martini with sweet PX wine, to wake up with class
The afternoon can be sophisticated if we are into coffee. Making an Espresso Martini is an alternative that will be better than Redbull to wake you up. In a shaker with 3 ice cubes, the liquid from a cup of coffee, the same proportion of vodka, and we add the same centiliters of sweet Pedro Ximénez.
Then, as the song says , shake up, shake up until we notice that we have foam. Then, into a martini glass (that’s why the cocktail is called that, not because it contains any type of vermouth), we pour the liquid without the ice. You should have a crown of foam, to which you can add a little cocoa and, from there, imagination, as if you were a barista. You can decorate it in a thousand ways.
This ‘flamenco’ cocktail is for all audiences, even for those who do not usually drink alcohol. A little bit does take… Joy!
Mojito Flamenco, a seducer with Pale Cream wine
The most flamenco version of the idolized Mojito is very easy to make. First, we need a wide glass, 6 orange segments and mint. With a mallet, we crush it inside the glass and immediately add 50 cl of Pale Cream wine. When we finish, we add crushed ice, which you can buy at any supermarket, and to fill it to the top with whatever is left of the glass of soda, lemon lime (sprite or seven up).
Also add a couple of spoons of brown sugar and a few drops of orange juice. With a ballerina spoon, stir everything in a circular motion, so that it mixes well. As a garnish (or decoration) we will add a small bouquet of 3 mint leaves and a couple of cardboard straws and enjoy.
There is no more elegant cocktail than having a special triple Vermouth.
Martini special, for vermouth fans
This Daki cocktail does have a Martini, well, it actually has vermouth and can be served in the glass that bears the same name. The recipe in equal parts is a measure of dry white vermouth, red vermouth and a touch of dry vermouth, as well as gin.
Add ice and mix in a shaker so that it remains very cold. As decoration, the peel of a lemon and drink!
The Córdoba Cocktail is the recipe that won the contest in the last edition. We tested it!
Córdoba Cocktail, with Palo Cortado wine, to impress
The winning recipe of the Córdoba Cocktail contest is very interesting to make (and try). First of all, we are going to use 50 ml of Palo Cortado from Montilla-Moriles. Afterwards, we take 20 cl of applesauce, 15 of anise Machaquito liqueur – although it can be made by mixing Anise Machaquito and coffee – (the latter, if we prefer, decaffeinated).
It also has a splash of hazelnut liqueur and another splash of lime juice. We add all this to a glass with crushed ice. And to decorate, a few drops of Pedro Ximénez balsamic vinegar, also from Montilla-Moriles, with other drops of 1490 oil. All you need is mint and a piece of dehydrated apple to make it spectacular. If we already have a pottery vessel from La Rambla, applause is more than assured.
They say Bloody Mary is one of the best drinks for the day after (what? after almost everything…).
Bloody Mary with Amontillado wine, for after… whatever
This is one of my favourites. There is nothing better to start the night or the morning! than with a Bloody Mary. This revitalizing and purifying cocktail, for what can happen or what happened, is one of the unbeatable. The ingredients: tomato juice, lemon, vodka, Perrins sauce, a little Tabasco, salt and pepper and Amontillado wine from Montilla-Moriles, will act as a livener at your party.
As a decoration, I am still very classic and their celery stick, a few drops of lemon and hitting it hard in the shaker with a lot of ice… I remember when I lived in England, they would say to me “what a good Bloody Mary!”, and I always responded : “Of course, of course, because it goes with Amontillado wine.”