This Cognac Sour cocktail is not for the faint of heart. Bold taste and timeless flavour!
Looking to use cognac in cooking? Take a look at our Creamy Cognac Mushroom Sauce.
It’s Friday afternoon…time to unwind and although I spent the last 3 days at home I don’t feel completely relaxed. Not yet.
This past Monday I returned from a work trip to Russia and although it was by all accounts a great trip which also allowed me to visit my home country for the first time in 10 years I came home knackered.
Truth is I’ve been running full speed for the last 3-4 months and I know it’s time to slow down for at least a little bit, spend some quality time with family and have some fun!
Cognac Sour
This cocktail is a perfect balance of sweet and sour infused with woodsy scent of fresh rosemary.
If you don’t mind spending a few minutes behind the stove do make your own sugar syrup instead of buying it.
And when you do make it use unrefined Demerara/Turbinado sugar which adds incredibly delicious caramel notes to otherwise flat and plain sugar syrup.
More recipes using cognac/brandy
Cognac Sour
Ingredients
For the Demerara sugar syrup
- 200g/1 cup Demerara/Turbinado sugar
- 250ml/1 cup water
For Cognac Sour
- 2 oz -Cognac
- 1 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ oz sugar syrup
- lemon wedges
- rosemary sprig
Instructions
- Make sugar syrup by combining Demerara/Turbinado sugar and water in a saucepan and bringing to a boil stirring continuously until sugar dissolves. Cool and bottle.
- Measure all ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
- Add 5-6 ice cubes. Shake vigorously and strain into a short glass.
- Add 1-2 ice cubes to the glass and garnish with a lemon wedge and a rosemary sprig.
Nutrition
Cheers and have a lovely weekend, friends!
John Lee says
Hi Vikalinka,
Pardon my ignorance here.
what does this mean:
“1 shot- freshly squeezed lemon juice”
does it mean 1 shot of traditional shot glass of lemon juice – typically 1 ounce?
Or
does it mean just squeeze one shot of juice from a lemon wedge (unmeasured) until there is no more juice?
Thanks.
vikalinka says
One shot as a measure, same one you measure cognac in. π
Rocky says
Thank you so much for this recipe. I think this is a perfect alternative to my standard whisky sour drink! And as i have a bottle of VSOP cognac still in shelf I will offer this to my guests on christmas too…
vikalinka says
Rocky, I hope you make it soon…it tastes infinitely tastier with cognac but I suppose I am not a huge whisky fan. π Cheers!
Laura (Tutti Dolci) says
Gorgeous, I love that touch of rosemary! Hope you have a great weekend :).
vikalinka says
Thank you, same to you, Laura!