Cocktail recipe

Rabo de Galo

A stirred cocktail featuring Cachaça, Sweet Vermouth, Cynar.

Rabo de Galo cocktail

Ingredients

  • 45 ml Cachaça
  • 22.5 ml Sweet Vermouth
  • 7.5 ml Cynar

Method

  1. Combine Cachaça, Sweet Vermouth and Cynar in a mixing glass with ice.
  2. Stir until cold and diluted.
  3. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
  4. Optional garnish: lime twist.

Story

Brazil's stirred cachaça-and-vermouth drink from the 1950s; the name literally translates 'cocktail' into Portuguese as 'rooster's tail'.