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Savoy Tango

Name: Savoy Tango
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Calvados apple brandy; 40 ml Sloe gin liqueur

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Calvados / apple brandy / straight applejack
1 ¹⁄₃ fl oz	Hayman's Sloe Gin liqueur

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Method

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of float thin (dehydrated) red-skinned apple slice.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Savoy Tango contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
24.26% alc./vol. (48.53° proof)
20.8 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book and kindly brought to my attention by by J. E. Clapham of Clapham Cocktails. The fact that Craddock says it originated at The Savoy, but neither takes credit nor credits a colleague, leads me to suspect this cocktail was created by Ada "Coley" Coleman.

SAVOY TANGO COCKTAIL.
½ Sloe Gin.
½ Applejack or Calvados.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This cocktail is a very great favourite at the Savoy Hotel, London, where it was invented.
Harry Craddock, 1930

More cocktails by Ada 'Coley' Coleman

Review

Just two ingredients but, as Jason E. Clapham told me, "a drink that is more than the sum of its parts."

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Nuno Mesquita 3y

More boozy than what I usually look for with calvados and sloe, but surprising in the balance. The sweetness of both spirits make it dangerously easy to drink. Not sure about the garnish, would go for something more citrus for balance.

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