To make this classic Affinity cocktail recipe—adapted from San Francisco bartender Erik Ellestad—you shake Scotch whisky and ice with equal parts of sweet and dry vermouth and a couple of drops of angostura bitters.

  • Yield: 1 drink
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Total: Under 5 mins 
  • Active: Under 5 mins  

Ingredients (5)

  • 1 ounce good-quality blended Scotch whisky
  • 1 ounce sweet vermouth
  • 1 ounce dry vermouth
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters
  • Lemon twist

Instructions

  1. Shake the Scotch, vermouths, and bitters with ice; then strain over ice into a chilled cocktail glass.
  2. Squeeze the lemon twist over the glass to release the oils, then drop it in the glass.