Name: Campden
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 10 ml Triple sec; 10 ml Aromatized wine; 5 ml Blanc quinquina/kina

Campden
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Serve in a Nick & Nora glass

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₃ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₆ oz	Blanc quinquina/kina (e.g. Mattei Cap Corse, Bonal or Kina L'Aér

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Delicately bittersweet with herbal undertones freshened by zesty orange.

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Variant:

Raimbaut

History:

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

CAMPDEN COCKTAIL.
½ Dry Gin.
¼ Cointreau.
¼ Kina Lillet.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Nutrition:

One serving of Campden contains 111 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
27.22% alc./vol. (27.22° proof)
15 grams of pure alcohol

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John CARR

12th May at 14:24

Revisiting with my current favourite fruit liqueur - lingonberry - while retaining a dash of the triple sec. So tasty I bumped up the measures by 1.5x on this occasion and served in a coupe. The lingonberry added a beautiful roseate hue - a Campden blush!

Matt Excell

12th April at 06:04

Seems a bit sweet for an aperitif to my palate and that's even with using all Kina l'Aero, instead of splitting with Lillet. Not bad, though. I just think modern palates would want to skew this more gin heavy.

Stephen Broughall

2nd March at 00:33

Very nice light martini-ish cocktail. Didn’t have the kina but did add a couple of dashes of orange bitters. Will have again.

John CARR

14th January at 15:13

Dainty and sophisticated. Flavours are delicate and refined. Elegant and eminently drinkable. Recommended.

Ryan Harrold

11th July 2024 at 10:13

Wasn’t expecting much from this cocktail, but this cocktail was better then expected, which I think what helped for me was using a more citrus ford dry gin, which pairs nicely with triple sec, so overall although not the best cocktail ever it’s still a great drink and is a solid 4 almost 4.5 stars

Chris Brislawn

17th December 2023 at 03:52

Recently found Kina L’Aero d’Or by accident while driving through Walla Walla, Washington (of all places). To highlight the L’Aero d’Or and hew close to Craddock’s original balance with a slightly less-sweet cocktail, I used 1 oz Hayman’s London Dry and 1/4 oz each of Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, and L’Aero d’Or. No orange zest so I used a lemon twist, which played nicely with the Cointreau and the aperitifs. Lovely complex blend of citrus fruit and herbal flavors, as in a Last Word.