Goldfinch Recipe

The goldfinch, from lauren schell at seaworthy in new orleans, is a perfect marriage of two of-the-moment ingredients: white wine apritif and fino sherry. Its a refreshing, low-proof sipper perfect for brunch or day-drinking. It smells incredible, and looks gorgeously opalescent in the glass. Schell calls for cocchi americano, a white wine apritif that skews a little more bitter than its cousin lillet blanc. Fino is one of the dryest types of sherry. If you use a sweeter-but-still-dry sherry like amontillado, you may wish to pull back on the simple syrup just a tad.