Apairoteef

Apairoteef by Andy Mills

I’m toasting the Tooth Fairy with a great big smile that shows off my pair of teeth with a cocktail that’s designed to make you show yours too. London bartender Andy Mill created this clever potion at the Cocktail Trading Co. in 2016. The original drink, which is meant to be tongue in cheek, features a pair of chocolate candy dentures floating in the glass like the ones on your bedside table … .

sink your teeth into this

Potent pisco, the Peruvian grape brandy, is tempered by a delicious cardamom and pear shrub that Mills makes in house using a Gewurztraminer wine base, pear, vanilla, cardamom, sugar and white balsamic vinegar. It sounds incredible. I leaned on another incredible spirit, St. George distillery’s spiced pear liqueur, which is heavenly at this time of year, and added it two to one to the vinegar to make my own similar shrub. The two ingredients than get balanced by a little more white wine, using prosecco that has gone flat. I didn’t go all out on the candy dentures, but I did make a white chocolate tooth from a silicone mold, so that’s something to smile about. Here’s to losing your teeth, and finding some puzzling good wishes under your pillow. Cheers!

brush up on this pair

Apairoteef by Andy Mill

1 oz pisco

1 oz spiced pear shrub

1 oz sparkling wine, flat

Stir ingredients with ice and strain into a rocks glass. Swipe a lemon peel over the glass and garnish with a pair of confectionary chocolate dentures.

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