Name: Honey Deuce (Difford's version)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 30 ml Lemon juice; 10 ml Honey and water syrup; 60 ml Soda (club soda) water; 15 ml Blk raspberry liqueur

Honey Deuce (Difford's version)
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₃ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
2 oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water
¹⁄₂ oz	Black raspberry liqueur (e.g. Chambord)

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Prepare:

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.
Prepare garnish of 3 skewered melon balls.

How to make:

SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass whilst also pouring soda.
DRIZZLE black raspberry liqueur over cocktail. (This will bleed through cocktail as it sinks.)

Garnish:

Garnish with skewered melon balls.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

It's the combination of name, tennis tournament and garnish which makes this otherwise very ordinary Vodka Collins sweetened with berry liqueur special.

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Variant:

Frozen Honey Deuce (Difford's version)

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2006 by Nick Mautone, a highly experienced bartender and hospitality consultant, then contracted as brand ambassador for Grey Goose Vodka, which had just become vodka sponsor of the United States Tennis Association's Open tennis tournament.

Soon after being tasked with creating the event's official cocktail, he noticed that honeydew melon balls resembled tiny tennis balls, and with a suitable garnish found, his Grey Goose Vodka-based tall fruity cocktail soon followed. Served in collectable plastic cups, during the 2024 US Open, more than 500,000 Honey Deuce cocktails were sold, garnished with 1.5 million melon balls. That's a load of balls!

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Nutrition:

One serving of Honey Deuce (Difford's version) contains 179 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
9.41% alc./vol. (9.41° proof)
15.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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TheCocktailian

22nd July at 02:45

Oh, what a surprise reading this !
I am sorry to inform you that the recipe listed above is inaccurate and the part of the story that the cocktail was created in 2016 and Nick Mautone was a Grey Goose ambassador also inaccurate.

The original recipe is
1 1/4 oz Grey Goose vodka
3oz lemonade
1/2 oz Chambord
Build and stir over ice and garnish with 3 honeydew melon balls

It would be great if you could adjust to reflect the reality of it.

Thank you

https://www.greygoose.com/cocktails/grey-goose-vodka/honey-deuce.html

Simon Difford

22nd July at 13:54

No need to apologise! Many thanks for pointing out the typo. I’ve now corrected from 2016 to 2006. With regards to Nick Mautone’s role as Brand Ambassador for Grey Goose, this is what’s on Nick’s own website.

“In addition to restaurants, Nick works with beverage companies to assist in their marketing & brand management, training of sales & distribution teams, new product development and mixology. In that focus he has been the Grey Goose Vodka Brand Ambassador since 2005.”

As for the recipe, I specifically state “Adapted from”. Indeed, the recipe is titled “Honey Deuce (Difford’s version)."