Chet Helms

The latest issue of Imbibe Magazine had a pretty big section devoted to pisco. I'd never had it, and the only drink I'd ever heard of using it is the Pisco Sour. The egg in a PS makes me kind of nervous (I'm still new to eggy cocktails) so I looked for another recipe using pisco and found the Chet Helms on the Imbibe website. I always feel really good about myself when I have all the ingredients for one of these cocktails.

• 1 1/2 oz pisco
• 1/2 oz Carpano Antica sweet vermouth
• 1/2 oz Campari
• 1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
• 3 dashes rhubarb bitters (I like Fee's)
• Club soda
• Ice

Put the pisco, vermouth, Campari, lemon juice, and bitters in a shaker filled with ice. Shake it up and strain into an ice-fille collins glass. Fill it the rest of the way with club soda and garnish with an orange wedge and mint. 

This has become a house favorite. It's boozy, but not overwhelmingly so and it is quite refreshing. I highly recommend this one.