Bal Harbor Cocktail

This cocktail's name refers to the harbor with its twin islands off the cost of Miami. The combination of dry vermouth, rye and grapefruit juice is as dry as a Miami beach. Grapefruit juice appears in other Miami cocktails as well, including the Miami Beach!

Catoctin Creek makes this single barrel rye that is very traditional--you can taste the organic grain with no wine barrel finish like many ryes are doing lately. You notice the rye's dryness when the other ingredients are similarly dry.

• 1 1/2 oz. rye (Catoctin Creek Roundstone rye)
• 1/2 oz. dry vermouth 
• 1 oz. grapefruit juice
• maraschino cherry

Combine liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Drop the cherry into the glass.