Cute Fat Bastard in the Sack

In the seventeenth century cute was a grape juice syrup sometimes mixed with wine to produce imitation malmsey. Sack was a pale or dry sherry, and fat bastard was a heavy or full-bodied wine made from bastardo grapes, as distinct from a 'tawny' or 'weak bastard'.

Ingredients

• 2 measures of red bastardo wine - Doa and Barriada are widely available (substitute: full-bodied red wine)
• 1 measure of dry sherry
• 2 measures of white grape juice
• 1/4 measure of sugar syrup
• 2 measures of lemonade

Instructions

Shake and strain into ice-filled glass, add the lemonade.

Garnish: half slice of lemon and a cherry.

Alcohol Content: 1.1 units

Glass Type: Collins Glass