A to Z Blog Challenge, 2021, Cocktails for You, Form the letter G

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Welcome back to the the A to Z challenge for 2021. Today’s cocktail comes with a bit of backstory. Two years ago, before COVID 19 destroyed all the fun in life, my husband and I attended a charity wine festival and won a year’s worth of wine–a bottle a week. The selection was huge and the fifty two bottles were set aside for special occasions. Some, we didn’t normally drink, like port or champagne, but there is an occasion for everything. Recently, after we came out of lockdown, we went to dinner at a friend’s house. just two couples and I had proof of my negative COVID test as well as the first of my two vaccines. We decided to bring a couple of the remaining wines. One was a muscatel, or muscat wine, way too sweet to drink by itself, but I thought it might taste good over ice. While I was watching yet another rerun of NCIS, I decided to look to see if there were any cocktails made with that wine. Low and behold, I found one.

Today’s letter is G, and the cocktail I found and am anxious to try is called the Golden Ivy. It was created by Simon Difford in 2011 as a Christmas cocktail. As I said, I found the recipe online at https://www.diffordsguide.com It won’t be a cocktail that you’ll drink all night–not if you want to walk away under your own steam. The cognac blends well with the sweet berry taste of the muscat and the dry berry taste of the cranberries.

Make It Your Own

Ingredients:

2 oz cognac, Remi-Martin is suggested

1/2 oz Muscat wine

1 oz cranberry juice

Method:

Stir all ingredients with ice.

strain and serve in a coupe glass

Garnish with an orange zest twist.

Now, doesn’t that look pretty? I can see a Christmas story evolving from this particular cocktail.

Come back tomorrow to see what the letter H will have for you!

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Published by Susanne Matthews

Hi! I live in Eastern Ontario. I'm married with three adult children and five wonderful grandchildren. I prefer warm weather, and sunshine but winter gives me time to write. If I’m listening to music, it will be something from the 1960s or 1970s. I enjoy action movies, romantic comedies, but I draw the line at slasher flicks and horror. I love science fiction and fantasy as well. I love to read; I immerse myself in the text and, as my husband says, the house could fall down around me, and I’d never notice. My preferences are as varied as there are genres, but nothing really beats a good romance, especially one that is filled with suspense. I love historical romance too, and have read quite a few of those. If I’m watching television, you can count on it being a suspense — I’m not a fan of reality TV, sit-coms, or game shows. Writing gives me the most pleasure. I love creating characters that become real and undergo all kinds of adventures. It never ceases to amaze me how each character can take on its own unique personality; sometimes, they grow very different from the way I pictured them! Inspiration comes from all around me; imagination has no bounds. If I can think it, imagine it, I can write it!

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