Name: Call London
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Sherry - Fino; 20 ml Gin; 10 ml Lemon juice (freshly squeezed); 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix); 4 Margarita bitters

Serve in a

Nick & Nora glass

Garnish:

Grapefruit zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

2 fl oz	Fino sherry
2/3 fl oz	Gin
1/3 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/3 fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water, 65.0°Brix)
4 drop	Difford's Margarita Bitters
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Fino sherry – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

Dry and slightly sour yet a delicious aperitivo.

Variant:

Call Mexico

History:

A reversed and volumized London Calling. The name and the ratios maybe is my own (London is very 'cool') but this cocktail was the idea of Jennifer Spencer and shared via a comment on our London Calling page.

Nutrition:

One serving of Call London contains 130 calories.

Alcohol content:

0.9 standard drinks
12.95% alc./vol. (25.9° proof)
13 grams of pure alcohol

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