Monza

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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
1 fresh Passion fruit (fresh)
2 oz Ketel One Vodka
1⁄2 oz Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
2 oz Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
1⁄6 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Apple slice (dehydrated]

How to make:

Cut passion fruit in half and scoop the flesh into shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

Often made with up to four times as much bitter liqueur but in such high doses this dominates the other ingredients. Hence in December 2020, thanks to a comment below, we made our recipe more restrained to allow the passion fruit to shine while delivering a relatively dry cocktail.

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History:

A classic cocktail promoted by Campari and named after the Italian Grand Prix circuit.

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Jonathan Cope’s Avatar Jonathan Cope
29th January 2021 at 21:20
Too boozy for me, I would tone down the vodka to 45/30ml.
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Ben Manning’s Avatar Ben Manning
27th December 2020 at 20:08
The Campari overpowers the taste of everything else in this drink - not for everyone.
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Chris Dimal’s Avatar Chris Dimal
30th December 2022 at 21:32
Agreed. A bitter tone was there throughout the drink. I was really wanting the fruitiness of the passion fruit and apple to come through, to no avail.
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