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Grapevyne

Name: Grapevyne
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 8 fresh Green grapes (seedless); 50 ml Vodka; 15 ml Ambrato vermouth; 5 ml Grappa; 5 ml Chartreuse Green; 2 dash Absinthe

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (4)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
8 fresh	Green grapes (seedless)
1 2/3 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1/2 fl oz	Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth
1/6 fl oz	Nonino Il Moscato Grappa Monovitigno
1/6 fl oz	Green Chartreuse (or alternative herbal liqueur)
2 dash	La Fée Parisienne absinthe

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of skewered red grape.

Method

MUDDLE grapes in base of shaker.
Add other ingredients.
SHAKE with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with skewered grape.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

22 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Ambrato/ambre/amber vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

A riff on the Grape Cocktail. Created by yours truly in May 2023 at The Clocktower, Rye, England.

More cocktails by Simon Difford

Review

Vodka-laced grape juice is delicious in this cocktail with layers of complexity thanks to judicious additions of characterful dry vermouth, Chartreuse, grappa, and absinthe.

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Amazing how just 5ml Grappa asserts itself so overbearingly here...and we love Grappa. And a bunch of both green and red grapes to be purchased for the delight of a single red one perched on glass's rim? We called this "Big hitters' dog's breakfast", the big hitters being the Nonino Grappa, Green Chartreuse and Absinthe. We thought it might come together as it settled in the glass, but not really. So sorry to be negative but it is what it is.