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Tango

Name: Tango
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Rosso/sweet vermouth; 15 ml Orange juice

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Ingredients
1 fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1/2 fl oz	Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth (chilled)
1/2 fl oz	Strucchi Rosso Vermouth (chilled)
1/2 fl oz	Orange juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Tango contains 163 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
19.17% alc./vol. (38.33° proof)
18.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth, Rosso/rouge/sweet vermouth (di Torino) — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

The Tango Cocktail appears in Harry MacElhone's 1923 book Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails with the recipe repeated verbatim in his 1927 Barflies Cocktail, where he also adds that the recipe is by Harry, a bartender at Palermo, Rue Fontaine, Paris. In the 1920s, the Palermo was a popular Parisian cabaret and music venue in the 9th arrondissement.

By the time this recipe appears in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book, rather than just rosso (Italian) vermouth, dry vermouth is also used.

Tango Cocktail.
1/6 Curaçao
1/6 Orange juice
1/3 Italian vermouth
1/3 Plymouth Gin
Shake well and strain into chilled glass, and squeeze orange peel on top.
(Recipe by Harry, Bartender Palermo, Rue Fontaine, Paris.)
Harry MacElhone, barflies and Cocktails, 1927

TANGO COCKTAIL.
2 Dashes Curaçao.
The juice of ¼ Orange.
¼ French Vermouth.
¼ Italian Vermouth.
½ Dry Gin.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Harry Craddock, 1930

Review

Beautifully balanced gin-laced herbal complexity with zesty orange.

Comments & Discussion

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Jack Reid 4y

I generally agree with Simon's one-line reviews but on this occassion I could hardly disagree more. So much so that I wondered if I'd gotten the ingredients wrong. I double-checked and I haven't but I don't get much of the gin (which is a plus for me, because I'm not a particular fan) and I don't get much of the orange. I certainly wouldn't call it zesty. It IS well balanced and I had no trouble finishing it but it's innocuous and immemorable.