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Mint Cocktail

Name: Mint Cocktail
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 12 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Gin; 30 ml Sauvignon Blanc wine; 7.5 ml White crème de menthe; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)

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Ingredients
12 fresh	Mint leaves
2 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 fl oz	Sauvignon Blanc wine
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Giffard Menthe Pastille white crème de menthe
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of mint leaf.

Method

Gently MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise).
Add other ingredients and SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with mint leaf.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

24 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Sauvignon Blanc wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

MINT COCKTAIL
Soak a few sprigs of fresh mint for two hours in a glass and a half of White Wine. Add half a glass of Crème de Menthe, 2 glasses of Gin and 1½ glasses of White Wine. Ice and shake thoroughly.
Serve with a sprig of mint tastefully arranged in each glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

More cocktails by Harry Craddock

Review

A great grassy, minty digestif with a good balance between acidity and sweetness.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 12.5 cocktails
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Giffard Menthe Pastille 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$39.99 $0.40 per cocktail Giffard Menthe Pastille image

Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) 750ml - makes 100 cocktails
$14.99 $0.15 per cocktail Monin Pure Cane Syrup (US) image

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Comments & Discussion

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Josh Harpoon 1w

I have used a green creme the menthe, but needed an extra fine strain by Melitta filterpaper to avoid residue of the mintleaves in my glass.
It took a lot of time but it was worth, a very nice subtile minty cocktail in ice green colour.
Will make it again!

G. M. Genovese Premium Member 7w

No wine on hand. Made this with Cocchi Americano. Tempus Fugit brand creme de menthe. Thought I would have to up the mint liqueur, but it's plenty menthol. The sweetness of the Cocchi was balanced by its bitterness, so it wasn’t quite cloying. But I can see why unadulterated white wine would be preferable.

Chris Dimal 3y

Nice drink after a meal, almost like a gin Stinger. Nice balance of mint (both fresh and sweet) with the slight acidity of the white wine and the botanicals of the gin.

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