Chilly nights, crisp autumn days. Sweaters and toques abound. Take the kids to the pumpkin patch or the apple orchard to plunder natures bounty.

For many people this is a time of intense effort, harvesting the hard work of the entire year, from pruning, planting and weeding, this last quarter of the year is when the results are manifest.

Maybe at the end of your hard days work of harvesting, you can sit by your fire, give thanks and reflect on the magnificent abundance that sustains each of us.

Hay Harvest by Pieter Bruegel, Elder

The COCKTAIL

This is a fine after dinner sipper. Autumn Harvest has a boozy taste with the flavour of spiced apple brandy.

Recipe

What you need

1.5 oz Calvados Boulard VSOP Pays d’Auge
1.5 oz Averna Amaro
2 dash Angostura Bitters

What you do

Pre-chill the glass.
Fill a Stirring glass with ice and add liquids.
Stir until well chilled.
Fine strain carefully into the serving glass.
Garnish and serve.

Garnish: Luxardo Cherry
Serve: Coupe glass
Style: After dinner Sipper
Taste: Strong, sweet

Patrick (Paddy) Moore

Patrick (Paddy) Moore is the author of the series Quarantinis, Eh? featuring cocktails that commemorate the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021.

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