Choc-a-block Martini

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1483959]
ETA: I saw this cocktail recipe in a vodka ad. After my coincidental posting on Facebook about whisky and chocolate, and some comments there about combining them, I remembered this drink, and thought I would seek the opinions of others.

Comments

[emperor]

Bound to be far too sweet, and probably Just Plain Minging. I'm sort of morbidly curious, though...

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

This.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly try it. Whether the flavours would work together I'm not sure. (Although my idea of what works CAN be quite eclectic).

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

not sure about the shiraz

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

The Shiraz is also what makes me question it -- although I can understand wanting to balance out the sweetness of the sherry. I can see how sherry might go very well with dark chocolate, and I've made regular chocolate martinis with vodka before and they turned out quite well. Maybe some sort of brandy in lieu of Shiraz?

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

Don't do it!

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

I'm with the people who are raising eyebrows at the shiraz. Don't get me wrong, I love shiraz... in context. I just feel that this context is not necessarily the right one.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It sounds like what used to be referred to in Taruithorn circles as a 'mathom'.




(Because at the end of one Bring-a-Mathom Party, some inconsiderate teetotaller decided it would be fun to mix all the remaining drink remnants together into one bottle before persuading gullible drunk society members to drink the resulting cocktail.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard that story before.

Mathom

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Bah, I wasn't drunk! I proved it by walking unassisted down the stairs and up again, and down, and up, and down, and up, and down and up anddownandupanddownand

... anyway, I thought it didn't taste too bad. At the time...

Fantastically apt icon, btw!

Re: Mathom

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

This doesn't sound like the Polly I know!

Re: Mathom

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that her christian name sounds exactly like the sound that people make when they've been so sick that there's nothing left to come - the dry heave, so to speak.

Re: Mathom

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

This really doesn't sound like the Polly I know!

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

I would have a sip of someone else's. I'm not sure I'd be brave enough to ask for a glassful...

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

It sounds repellantly sweet to me, and I have a very sweet tooth.