Rye High: a recipe for the ultimate Canada Day punch from The Emerson’s Aja Sax
Canadian rye now rivals bourbon as bartenders’ brown booze of choice. Here, Aja Sax, the cocktail savant at The Emerson, shares her Canada Day punch recipe
Ingredients 3 cups Dillon’s white rye from Niagara (LCBO 337600) 1½ cup St. Germain liqueur 1¼ cup tart cherry juice 1 cup brewed and cooled strong lemon tea (five packets of Lemon Zinger will do the trick) 1½ cup Hinterland Whitecap sparkling wine (LCBO, Vintages 332809) Fresh Ontario cherries
Prep Place a pitted cherry in each cube of a few ice cube trays. Add water and freeze overnight.
Right before serving, pour all the ingredients except the sparkling wine and ice cubes into a punch bowl. At the last minute, add the sparkling wine. Place one cherry ice cube in your guest’s glass and top with punch.
Makes approximately 10 servings.
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