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A weekly letter on cocktails worth knowing.
History, craft, and the last metre.
Every Tuesday. Straight up.
Whichever six you have, they are here. What is in each drink, how strong it is, what it may contain, and the one thing worth knowing about how to serve it.
Gin, Vermouth, and Campari.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
27.6% vol.
199 kcal per 100 ml149 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Pour over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Garnish with an orange slice or expressed orange peel.
Gin, vermouth, coffee-infused Campari.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
27.6% vol.
199 kcal per 100 ml149 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Twenty minutes in the freezer, then straight up into a chilled coupe. No garnish. Ice would only dilute the coffee.
Tequila, Vermouth, and Campari.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
26.9% vol.
201 kcal per 100 ml151 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Pour over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Garnish with a lime twist.
Gin, Vodka, Aromatised Wine, Quinquina.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
38.2% vol.
255 kcal per 100 ml191 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve cold from the freezer into a chilled coupe. Garnish with a thin slice of lemon peel.
Gin, Vermouth, and Pickled Onion.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
39.5% vol.
199 kcal per 100 ml149 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Straight from the freezer into a chilled coupe. No garnish. The onion is soaked into the gin and then filtered out, so the savoury note is already in the bottle.
Old Tom gin, dry vermouth, fino sherry and absinthe.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
29.1% vol.
225 kcal per 100 ml169 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Not declared
250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Gin, Pisco, Vermouth.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
28.6% vol.
209 kcal per 100 ml157 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Not declared
50 ml · 250 ml · 500 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Gin, Lychee and Vermouth.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
30.5% vol.
148 kcal per 100 ml111 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. Garnish with a lychee or a rose petal.
Sake, Gin, Maraschino.
None declared
19% vol.
Not declared
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. A salted cherry blossom on top, if you have one.
Gin, Calvados, Grenadine and Absinthe.
None declared
40% vol.
240 kcal per 100 ml180 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. No garnish required.
Vodka, coffee liqueur, and Monmouth Coffee.
None declared
20% vol.
243 kcal per 100 ml182 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Shake hard over ice for twenty seconds. Single-strain into a chilled coupe. Three coffee beans on top.
Tequila, triple sec, agave, Myatt’s Sours.
None declared
28% vol.
240 kcal per 100 ml180 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VeganVegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Twenty minutes in the freezer. Straight up into a chilled coupe. No salt on the rim.
Mezcal, Yellow Chartreuse, Sours, Aperol.
None declared
17.1% vol.
239 kcal per 100 ml179 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. No garnish required.
Gin, Lillet Blanc, Myatt’s Lemon, Blue Curaçao, absinthe.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
15% vol.
239 kcal per 100 ml179 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe. No additional garnish needed. The colour speaks for itself.
Rye Whiskey, two different vermouths, and bitters.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
35.5% vol.
249 kcal per 100 ml187 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Vegetarian
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a speared Luxardo cherry.
Cuban rum, two vermouths and grapefruit.
Sulfur dioxideSulphites
24.5% vol.
236 kcal per 100 ml177 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Rye Whiskey, Punt e Mes, Luxardo Maraschino.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
32% vol.
208 kcal per 100 ml156 kcal in a 75 ml serve
Not declared
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled Nick and Nora or coupe glass. Garnish with a Luxardo cherry.
Rum, Demerara, Vanilla & Cardamom.
None declared
35% vol.
263 kcal per 100 ml197 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml
Serve over a large ice cube in a rocks glass. Garnish with an expressed orange peel.
Aquavit, Manzanilla Sherry, Cynar, and peach bitters. Bottled and aged for at least six weeks.
SulphitesSulfur dioxide
24.5% vol.
204 kcal per 100 ml153 kcal in a 75 ml serve
VegetarianVegan
50 ml · 250 ml · 500 ml
Serve straight up in a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Nothing by that name. Try the spirit instead.
A drink that goes in the freezer never meets ice, so it never gets the water that ice would give it. We build that water into the recipe instead. The dilution is not a compromise. It is part of what brings the drink to life.
A drink that is not built for the freezer is simply one whose water arrives in the glass, from a big rock or a well chilled coupe. That is the whole of the difference, and it is why the serve is worth reading.