Recipe

• 3 parts bourbon whiskey (or rye)

• 1 part lemon juice

• 1 part red wine

• 1 part sugar syrup

Shake the whiskey, lemon juice and syrup together with ice and strain into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. Pour the wine over a teaspoon on the top of the drink so that it floats on top. Add a twist of lemon zest.

Excellent fun to look at, and a more interesting drink to taste than the simpler whiskey sour, which had never done much for me.

The chilled red wine is very drinkable, and since you drink most of it first it acts as a nice build-up to the stronger, spirit-based main course below.

Could probably be improved by adding bitters at the whiskey stage. This might help add complexity, which is lacking.