Name: Improved Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 15 ml Lime juice; 15 ml Apricot liqueur; 10 ml Apricot eau-de-vie; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 dash Creole bitters; 30 ml Brut sparkling wine

Improved Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail
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Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Apricot (abricot) eau-de-vie
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters
1 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lime slice or wedge (or apricot).

How to make:

SHAKE first 6 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.

Garnish:

Garnish with lime (or apricot) slice/wedge on rim.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Dry sparkling wine dilutes and adds pleasing biscuity notes to this apricot gin sour.

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Variant:

Cocktail Bill's 1908 Pendennis Club Cocktail
Pendennis Club Special
Improved Pendennis Club Special
Pendennis Club Revisited

History:

Adapted from a riff on Toby Cecchini's Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail created in 2022 by Phil Ward, fellow bartender at the Long Island Bar in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Improved Improved Pendennis Club Cocktail contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.81% alc./vol. (16.81° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Caspian Berggren

4th August at 18:31

Is it a delicious cocktail? Absolutely. It's bright with some bready characteristics from the eau-de-vie and wine. You might want to try it with less syrup if you like your cocktails tarter. Is it worth opening a bottle of sparkling wine for it? Eh. Do it if you know you have some people to drink the bottle with you, that also likes apricot brandy, but it's not a big improvement on the French 75. As Simon said — it's an apricot gin sour with some added sparkling wine.

John Hinojos

26th July 2023 at 00:10

The Improved Improved is Excellent. The Eau-de-Vie and liqueur adds a variety of apricot flavour which are softened by the herbal nature of the gin. The Champagne add grape tones and a slight effervescence. Another for the favourites.

Florian Ruf

18th April 2023 at 16:24

With no apricot eau de vie in house I decided to use 1oz gin, 1 oz apricot brandy, ½ oz lime juice, 3 dashes Peychauds and 1 oz champagne which made a lovely, apricot forward cocktail, not too sweet and with a light salmony colour.