# Clean Slate

Manzanilla and blanc vermouth make a saline, floral aperitif sharpened by gentian and Peychaud’s in Jermaine Whitehead’s quietly exact low-alcohol drink.

Strength: 16% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 30 ml [Manzanilla sherry](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/manzanilla-sherry.md) — Keep the opened bottle refrigerated and use it fresh.
- 30 ml [Blanc vermouth](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/blanc-vermouth.md) — Keep the opened bottle refrigerated and use it fresh.
- 7.5 ml [Gentian liqueur](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/gentian-liqueur.md)
- 2 dashes [Peychaud’s bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/peychauds-bitters.md)

## Glassware

Wine glass

## Garnish

- Edible flower — Use one food-safe unsprayed flower.

## Method

1. Stir all the ingredients with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled and diluted.
2. Fine-strain into a chilled small wine glass.

## Related drinks

- [Bamboo](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bamboo.md): A delicate, low-alcohol aperitif joining fino sherry and dry vermouth with aromatic bitters.
- [Coronation Cocktail (Joseph Rose)](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coronation-cocktail-joseph-rose.md): Joseph Rose’s 1903 Coronation is a bone-dry vermouth-and-fino cocktail lifted by tiny measures of maraschino and orange bitters.
- [Coronation No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coronation-no-1.md): Equal fino and dry vermouth make a pale, saline wine cocktail in which maraschino and orange bitters supply just enough fruit and spice to distinguish it from the Bamboo.
- [Adonis](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/adonis.md): A poised, lower-proof aperitif joining dry, nutty Amontillado sherry with sweet vermouth and orange bitters.
- [La Perla](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/la-perla.md): Reposado tequila, saline manzanilla, and pear liqueur make Jacques Bezuidenhout’s quietly luxurious stirred aperitif taste both ripe and bone-dry.
- [Fumata Bianca](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fumata-bianca.md): Floral blanc vermouth and earthy Suze carry a restrained measure of mezcal through soda in Timothy Miner's gently smoky, low-proof aperitivo.
- [Parisian Dispatch](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/parisian-dispatch.md): Sother Teague turns blanc vermouth, absinthe, orgeat, and soda into a pale, mint-crowned highball that is long, aromatic, and genuinely low proof.
- [El Presidente](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/el-presidente.md): An elegant Cuban rum aperitif balancing sweet blanc vermouth with precise accents of orange curaçao and grenadine.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/clean-slate
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/clean-slate-9fc7d433.webp
- Recipe source: https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/low-alcohol-cocktail-clean-slate-cocktail/