Name: Jasmine
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Red bitter liqueur; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

Ingredients

1 1/2 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/4 fl oz

Italian red bitter liqueur

1/4 fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

3/4 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/6 fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix (optional)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Jasmine contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.68% alc./vol. (39.36° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

History

Created in the mid-1990s by Paul Harrington at Townhouse Bar & Grill in Emeryville, California and named after his college friend, Matt Jasmin, who challenged Paul to "Make me something you've never made before." Inspired by the classic Pegu Club, this cocktail is the result of that challenge. The Jasmine was promoted by its inclusion in his 1998 book Cocktail: The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century.

JASMINE
1½ ounces gin
¼ ounce Cointreau
¼ ounce Campari
¾ ounce Lemon juice
Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
A Paul Harrington original.

Paul Harrington, 1998

Comments & Discussion

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Olga María Gómez Henderson 12w

It's good. Perfect if you're in the mood for a sour but you don't want something very sweet.

Cattini 14w

I didn't have any sugar in the house to make a simple syrup so made this without. I'm very happy i didn't as I found the campari and triple sec offered enough sweetness for my pallete.

Joseph Nelson Premium Member 41w

What a charming and simple cocktail! I always trim down the amount of lemon juice I use just because I find the lemons I have overpower every other ingredient, so I trimmed it down to about 15ml. Still super tart and grapefruit-y, but you could better taste the Campari and detect a more herbal tone. I loved it!

Juniper Lately 1y

Love a Jasmine as is, but just made this “long” by subbing a wee bottle of Gioia bitter soda (100ml) in place of the Campari - very nice and refreshing.

D K 1y

I modified this a little with orange curacao and lime instead of Cointreau and lemon juice, and three dashes of grapefruit bitters, and it very much changes the character of the drink but it is extremely nice.

Egg McKenzie 1y

I used the recipe in the spirited cocktail book, which uses twice as much Cointreau. Still tastes exactly like grapefruit juice. Lovely.

Nir Rasin Premium Member 1y

It's very nice, made it one day for a few people, the ladies like it much more then me or the other men... For me it's missing in complexity.
I would say it's very close to Grapefruit juice in it's flavor.