Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. Belle Isle Blood Orange

• 1 oz. Laird’s Applejack

• ½ oz. blueberry puree

• ¼ oz. lemon

• ¼ oz. Amontillado sherry

• ¼ oz. Haikara Yuzu Sake

• 2 mint sprigs

• 3-4 dashes Angostura bitters

PREPARATION:

Muddle one mint sprig in a shaker tin, then add all other ingredients except bitters to the tin with ice. Shake and strain into rocks glass. Pack with crushed ice, then top with a few dashes of Angostura bitters. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Recipe courtesy of Mika Takahashi at High Note in Atlanta.

Photos by Andrew Thomas Lee.