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# Can I Get You a Drink?
- URL: https://www.bourbonbanter.com/can-i-get-you-a-drink/
- Published: 2015-06-16T05:01:41.000Z
- Updated: 2023-04-14T23:53:04.000Z
- Description: When welcoming guests into your home, nothing says “I’m glad you’re here” quite like a cocktail. It shows you care and want them to have a good time. After taking coats and accepting any gifts (the best guests bring gifts), the first thing I do is offer a drink.
- Author: Thomas Fondano
- Tags: Cocktails, Cocktail Recipes, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2023-03-13 09:32, #updated

When welcoming guests into your home, nothing says “I’m glad you’re here” quite like a cocktail. It shows you care and want them to have a good time.

After taking coats and accepting any gifts (the best guests bring gifts), the first thing I do is offer a drink. It doesn’t need to be fancy; a simple highball will suffice. But if you’ve got the ingredients, the tools and the know-how, it could be transcendent.

My house cocktail blends two of my favorite classic cocktails: the Manhattan and the Sazerac. I originally came up with a similar drink using Cocchi Americano in place of sweet vermouth. (Much later I found it to be a close relative to both the [Waldorf](https://cocktails.about.com/od/whiskeyrecipes/r/waldorfcocktail.htm?ref=bourbonbanter.com) and the [Satan Cocktail](https://cocktaildb.com/recipe%5Fdetail?id=2051&ref=bourbonbanter.com).)

**The Vandano Variation**

  - 2 oz rye whiskey (Bulleit or Rittenhouse)
  - 1 oz sweet vermouth (Dolin or Cinzano)
  - 1 dash Angostura bitters
  - 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
  - Absinthe or Pastis

*Spritz\* a chilled coupe with absinthe. Stir rye, vermouth and bitters with ice and strain into coupe.*  
*Garnish with twist of lemon peel.*

\*I say spritz the glass because I find the “swirl and dump” method of coating a glass to be wasteful and absinthe ain’t cheap. I recommend picking up a Misto or other food grade sprayer giving the glass a quick half second blast.

It’s simultaneously sweet and spicy, bright and dark. I’ve had at least one guest say, “I wish I could drink these all night.” I do too.

So, what’s your house cocktail? Let me know in the comments and I’ll try yours if you try mine.

It was good to see you again and thanks for the gift.