California Wine Ball
Lemon Lick
Rum Ricky
Wine Cooler
Wounded Buck
The California Wine Ball is a drink born on the Estrada Ranch under the creative juices of Indian Jim Hathway. An alcoholic’s Christmas wish come true, the Wine Ball breaks the ranks of traditional beverages by blending red wine and whiskey into a challenging taste experience. There is a prerequisite to drinking a Wine Ball; you must first have at least one whiskey and soda highball to wet the palate sufficiently in preparation for the Wine Ball. Now you’re ready to enjoy the experience of a lifetime.
3 oz. Whiskey (or Bourbon)
Burgundy Wine (Merlot or Zinfandel may be substituted)
Club Soda
Water
Making a California Wine Ball is unconventional as it’s ingredients. You begin with a normal whiskey and soda highball. Using a 12 oz tumbler, pour in whiskey and fill with equal parts of club soda and spring water. (No ice is used in the original Wine Ball.) Start enjoying the highball. Normally, a Wine Ball is started right before lunch and completed during lunch. Drink the highball down about half way or less, then refill with wine during lunch. Now enjoy the uncanny taste of two distinctive pleasures blended into a single drink. There is truly nothing like it.
LEMON LICK
A refreshing afternoon drink meant to quench the thirst of even the most parched cabin socialite.
2 ½ oz. Vodka
Homemade Lemonade (Country Time can be substituted)
Lime Wedge
Cracked Ice
Fill ¾ of a tumbler with cracked ice. Add vodka and lemonade to fill. Squeeze some of the lime wedge juice into the drink and drop in the remaining wedge in the glass. Stir and serve.
An afternoon drink meant to replace those vitamins and electrolytes lost during an active early morning hunt. A favorite around the campsite. For a special touch, try a blended Ricky, if the technology is available at your cabin.
2 ½ oz. Meyers Rum (must be 'Meyers')
Orange Juice
Cracked Ice
Fill ¾ of a tumbler with cracked ice. Add rum and orange juice to fill. Stir and serve.
The original standard in camp elixirs. This simple drink has been enjoyed generation after generation and can be prepared to suit young and old alike.
Homemade Lemonade
Burgundy Wine (Merlot or Zinfandel may be substituted)
Lemon Wedge
Cracked Ice
Fill a 16 oz. Tumbler with ice. Add lemonade up to ¾ full. Pour in wine to fill the glass. Stir, add lemon wedge and serve.
This drink is not for the faint hearted or the inexperienced drinker. A recommended one drink limit: two drinks may cause side effects such as numbness of limbs, blurred speech and vision, or rectal tremors.
1 oz. El Presidente Mexican Brandy
1 ½ oz. Wild Turkey, 101 Proof (not 80)
1 oz. Southern Comfort
Maraschino Cherry
Club Soda
Cracked Ice
Fill ½ of a highball glass with cracked ice then add the Mexican Brandy, Wild Turkey and Southern Comfort. Add club soda to fill. Delicately stir. Place the cherry ('the wound') in the glass and serve
