Hayley'S Comment (Blackberry, Sherry, And Bourbon Cocktail)

• For the blackberry syrup:
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 pint fresh blackberries
• For the cocktail:
• 1 1/4 ounces Belle Meade bourbon
• 1/2 ounce blackberry syrup
• 3/4 ounce lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 3/4 ounce oloroso sherry
• Lemon or orange peel, for garnish

1. Make the blackberry syrup. In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine water and sugar and mix until sugar has dissolved. Add blackberries and cook for 20 to 30 minutes, until mostly collapsed. Remove blackberry mixture from heat, press through a fine-mesh strainer into a bowl, and let the syrup rest until fully cooled.
2. Fill a shaker halfway with ice and then pour in the bourbon, blackberry syrup, lemon juice, simple syrup, and oloroso sherry.
3. Shake vigorously and pour, over ice, into a glass with height.
4. Express a lemon or orange peel (twist the peel so its oils are extracted) over the drink and add it into the glass. Serve immediately.

syrup, water, sugar, fresh blackberries, belle meade, blackberry syrup, lemon juice, simple syrup, oloroso sherry, lemon

Taken from food52.com/recipes/36804-hayley-s-comment-blackberry-sherry-and-bourbon-cocktail (may not work)