Name: Wink
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 ml Absinthe; 60 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Triple sec; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 2 dash Creole bitters

Wink
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
¹⁄₃ oz	La Fée Parisienne absinthe
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
2 dash	Peychaud's or other Creole-style bitters

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

How to make:

POUR absinthe into ice-filled glass.
TOP with chilled water and set to one side.
Separately, SHAKE other ingredients with ice.
DISCARD contents of glass (absinthe, water and ice).
FINE STRAIN cocktail into empty absinthe-coated glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS orange zest twist over cocktail and discard.

Review:

Reminiscent of a Sazerac but with gin and triple sec. Delicate, remarkably fruity and very sippable.

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History:

Created in 2002 by Tony Conigliaro at The Lonsdale in Nottinghill, London, England.

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Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
30.74% alc./vol. (30.74° proof)
25.5 grams of pure alcohol

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Stuart Reeve

4th September at 19:24

Like many cocktail recipes using absinthe, this seems very wasteful of the green fairy! I kept the full 10ml of absinthe and diluted with wet ice, cocktail was good but definitely absinthe forward. Next time I'll try 5ml and again keep all of it and shake (not stir) with ice. Will update.