Sherry Tonic

Name: Sherry Tonic
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 4 drinks
Ingredients: 1 cup dry fino or manzanilla sherry, chilled (240 ml); 2 cups tonic water, chilled (480 ml); 4 orange slices; mint sprigs and ice

In southern Spain, sherry and tonic is a long, low-alcohol way to start dinner, and it has become one of the quiet favourites of the past few years. It is dry and a little salty, and it goes with almost any first course. Everything is poured straight into the glass.

4 drinksYield

EasyDifficulty

What you'll need

1 cup dry fino or manzanilla sherry, chilled (240 ml)
2 cups tonic water, chilled (480 ml)
4 orange slices
mint sprigs and ice

How to make it

Fill four wine glasses with ice and add an orange slice to each.
Add 1/4 cup sherry to each glass.
Top with 1/2 cup tonic and stir once. Add the mint.
Glass: Wine glasses. Garnish: An orange slice and a mint sprig.

Chef's secrets

Use fino or manzanilla; sweeter sherries make it syrupy.

Keep opened sherry in the fridge, where it lasts a few weeks.

Good to know

Make ahead

Not needed; it takes one minute.