The venerable Greyhound is made with vodka or gin and grapefruit juice, and if you salt that hound, you get a Salty Dog. So goes the logic. But logic is dull—or lonely. Vodka craves company. Its pure grain simplicity is receptive to a host of improvements that would wither under gin’s herbaceous glare. And who doesn’t love a peach, with all that it conjures—from climbing fruit trees to sipping Bellinis? And with the right salt—like a springwater fresh Bolivian Rose salt—the vodka and peach open up with a smiling opulence that quells the furor of even the surliest god.
Recipe information
Yield
serves 1
Ingredients
Preparation
Step 1
Put the salt on a flat plate. Wet the rim of an oldfashioned glass with the peach bitters. Place the glass upside down on the plate to rim it with salt.
Step 2
Combine the vodka and grapefruit juice with a scoop of ice cubes in a shaker, shake vigorously for 5 seconds, and pour into the glass.
Variation
Step 3
For a Salted Chocolate Chihuahua, substitute tequila for vodka and rim the glass with chocolate bitters and salt.
