Midnight Cowboy cocktail recipe - A late-night cocktail

Smoked chocolate, raisin, Port and Vermouth, perfect complements to the rich notes of tobacco, leather and caramel of Michter's American Whiskey. A late-night cocktail, this twist on the classic Manhattan is the ultimate after-dinner sipper.

Ingredients

45ml Michter's American Whiskey, raisin steeped

15ml Cocchi Vermouth di Torino

5ml Tawny Port 10yr

2 dashes of chocolate balsamic

1 dash Chocolate bitters

Liquid smoke - Spray once or twice into your mixing glass.

Glass

Coupette

How to mix

Start by spraying the liquid smoke into your empty mixing glass, add ice, then stir until the glass is chilled and the liquid smoke is diluted. With a strainer pour out any liquid now in the glass. Add the rest of the ingredients into the mixing glass, fill with ice and stir until properly chilled and diluted. Strain whilst pouring into a chilled glass. Garnish. For your raisin steeped Michter's American Whiskey, simply add 130g of raisins and 70cl of whiskey into a large Kilner jar, and leave to infuse for 24 hours. Filter out the raisins before using them.

Garnish

Raisins