Nordic Combined
30 ml Crown Royal
30 ml Macallan Amber Liquer
15 ml fresh lemon juice
Orange twist
Orange clove “mohawk” – to garnish (orange twist studded with 3 cloves)

Combine liquid ingredients in Boston glass and fill with ice.  Add the orange twist and stir well to chill.  Strain into chilled coupe glass and garnish with clove studded orange twist.
*RM original

Jamaican Bobsled
1/2 wheel orange
1/4 wheel fresh pineapple
1 lemon wedge
30 ml Cointreau
50 ml ruby port
30 ml Appleton VX rum

To garnish additional orange, pineapple, and lemon wedges (with skin)

Muddle the fruit and curaçao in the bottom of a tall bar glass.  Add port, rum and 30 ml of water.  Shake with ice cubes, and strain into a second glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with fruit and serve with a straw.
*RM original

Vancouver 2010 Cocktail
2 oz Victoria gin
3/4 oz lemon juice
4 oz cane sugar syrup
Good pinch of fresh dill
4 quarter-sized cucumber cubes
1 oz smoked salmon on a cucumber slice

Muddle fresh dill and cubed cucumber in a Boston mixing glass.  Add gin, lemon juice and cane sugar syrup.  Fill with ice and shake vigorously.  Double strain into a martini glass.  Garnish with cucumber and smoked salmon float.
*From YEW Restaurant + Bar in the Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver

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