Peanut Rum Cocktail

It’s time to get nutty and insert a little flavour of peanuts into our cocktail, combining rum, Croatian Sparkling Wine, sweet spices and peanuts, let’s craft the Peanut Rum Cocktail!

The Sparkling Wine – Didin San

A Winery from the wonderful Sparkling Wine producing country of Croatia, with a vast and delicious history, Croatian Sparkling Wines aren’t often experienced outside of the country, they even say that the best Croatian Sparkling Wines never leave the country, well, it seems that this little gem slipped out and made its way to the Glass of Bubbly Awards, taking home a Silver Medal, produced in the Traditional Method, this Sparkling Wine is well worth a taste.

Hotel Borovnik – Didin San Brut – Tasting Notes

Aroma – “Dried apricot and peaches, yellow fruits, yeasty and freshly baked pastries, notes of citrus, dried lemon, lemon on pancakes and more on the palate.”

Flavour – “Fizzy yellow floral and citrus characters, with notes of peaches, apricots, yellow apples and lemon on the palate, not forgetting a faint hint of a lemon pastry.”

Silver Medal in the Spring Fling Category at the Glass of Bubbly Awards 2022

Rum – Ninefold Distillery

It took a year of careful planning for Ninefold Distillery to form, in 2018 the work officially began, converting two of their old cattle byres, that were originally used to milk cattle on the home farm.

Ninefold Distillery is nestled within Dormont Home Farm at the heart of Dormont Estate, Dumfries & Galloway. In a quiet rural setting in southwest Scotland, it took a few months to install their Scottish hand built copper hybrid pot still and obtain licenses, but in the spring of 2019, they started working on their first batches.

Ninefold Distillery – Dormont Spiced Rum – Tasting Notes – “Notes of allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, caramel, toffee and more.”

Peanut Rum Cocktail

Ingredients

• Sparkling Wine
• Rum
• Cinnamon Stick
• Nutmeg
• Peanuts
• Pressed Viola (Nurtured In Norfolk)

How To Make The Peanut Rum Cocktail

• Pour in 15mls of Rum
• 75mls of Sparkling Wine
• Add 1 Cinnamon Stick
• Sprinkle In Some Nutmeg
• Drop in a Handful of Peanuts
• Gentle Place 1 Pressed Viola on top for Garnish

Peanut Rum Cocktail Tasting Notes

Aroma – “A blend of relaxation, with roasted peanuts, cinnamon and nutmeg all working together, with subtle notes of yeast, allspice and pastry in the background.”

Flavour – “Evening relaxation, with notes of roasted peanuts, nutmeg powder, working with some puff pastry and yeasty notes of the sparkling wine, the rum adds allspice and subtle orange, that takes on a little of the cinnamon’s character.”

 

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