Name: Tango Cocktail (from the Bellagio)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 25 ml Passionfruit liqueur; 40 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Tango Cocktail (from the Bellagio)
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
⁵⁄₆ oz	Passoã passion fruit liqueur
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE 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:

Passion fruit liqueur, balanced by tart grapefruit and fortified with gin.

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History:

Adapted from a reipe discovered in 2003 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, USA.

Nutrition:

One serving of Tango Cocktail (from the Bellagio) contains 218 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
15.24% alc./vol. (15.24° proof)
16.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Sally Morgan

18th June 2022 at 18:45

Inthis form makes a fabulous brunch cocktail as in previous comment. If you’re looking for a pre dinner cocktail then reduce the grapefruit to 30ml and add a dash of grapefruit bitters

David Hoyle

8th June 2022 at 18:46

Works well as the revised and convenient three-ingredient cocktail. Refreshing and fruity without being sweet. Some may prefer optional sugar syrup to taste. Definitely one (or three) for a hot summer day, especially if flights to somewhere exotic and tropical cannot be relied upon...!

John Hinojos

11th July 2021 at 17:06

Great brunch cocktail. Not too sweet and very refreshing. Had it for my 70th Birthday brunch.

[deleted user]

11th July 2021 at 18:25

Happy Birthday John!

simon kitchen

29th June 2020 at 16:35

Both my daughters like a Porn Star Martini and during lockdown we couldn't get lemons and limes, but could get grapefruit so we decided to try this cocktail. My daughters enjoy this more than me and would probably score this a bit higher. I found it a fraction too sweet for my taste and we did try without the sugar syrup, but, as we found out, the sugar syrup is needed to balance the "bitterness" of the grapefruit, not the sourness.

Simon Difford

1st July 2020 at 20:11

It's 17 years since I last tried this cocktail and in that time glasses and serves have much reduced in scale. Hence, I scaled this drink back and while doing so I've also rebalanced to remove the sugar syrup. Happily, it's now a 3-ingredient cocktail and hopefully also better balanced.

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