Missing Halloween this Christmas season? A 2024 remake of the classic 1922 silent horror film Nosferatu will give you the chills from something other than the winter snow. Shake up this Nosferatu cocktail to celebrate the remake’s release on Christmas Day. The grenadine-soaked rose garnish is a nod to star Lily-Rose Depp as supernaturally inclined heroine Ellen Hutter, and the single drop of “blood” from the ruby-red grenadine mimics the vampiric tendencies of Count Orlok as played by Bill Skarsgård.
What is Nosferatu About?
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror originally came out in 1922 as a silent film. It was a loose adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though filmmaker F.W. Murnau conveniently forgot to ask Stoker’s estate, resulting in the family trying to destroy it. However, several copies survived, and what began as a low-budget German art film became one of the last century’s most iconic horror films. The name “Nosferatu” comes from an ancient Romanian word meaning “the offensive one” or “the insufferable one,” but the actual vampire in Nosferatu is Count Orlok, who masquerades as a human being to protagonist Thomas Hutter, visiting him in Translyvania to discuss a real estate transaction. The basic plot is the same as Dracula, a real estate saleasman becomes entangled in the clutches of an eccentric, Eastern European count…with bloody consequences. We can’t recommend drinking actual blood, but our Nosferatu cocktail is a close second.
The Drop of Blood, A Cocktail for Nosferatu
Description
Grenadine garnish turns this cocktail into a vampire’s delight.
Ingredients
- 2 oz Vodka
- 1 oz Cointreau
- 2 oz White Grape Juice
- ½ oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
Instructions
- Prepare your garnish first by soaking rose petals in grenadine.
- Allow those to soak until the petals abord some of the color.
For the Cocktail
- Add ice to a cocktail shaker then add vodka, Cointreau, white grape, and lemon. Shake until frost forms on the outside of the shaker.
- Double strain pour into a chilled Coupe glass.
- Garnish with a petal by dripping the grenadine into the drink and dropping in the petal. The grenadine will fall to the bottom of the glass. This mimics a drop of blood.
Recipe by Sarah Cascone
Photography by Dave Bryce
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