This week's cocktail has its roots in The Levant - home to beautiful flavor combinations that stoke something ancient inside us. Byblos recreates one of these in a cocktail and centers on watermelon. #cocktails 🍸🍹

Chill a coupe, nic 'n nora, or martini glass. Add the ingredients to a mixing glass sans oil. Add ice and stir down the cocktail until iceberg cold. Garnish with the oil with a dropper or squeeze bottle.

You'll find plenty of recipes for fat washing a spirit online. Watermelon cordial is not a true cordial here but made from fresh watermelon juice and lime juice with sugar and acidified.

You can definitely make this with simple syrup, lime juice, and watermelon juice. If you do, shake the cocktail in a tin with ice and double strain.

And, last, thanks to Jenny Roberts Antonini for some great basil!

#vodka #cheese #watermelon #sherry