Name: Bittersweet Symphony
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 20 ml Triple sec; 20 ml Apricot liqueur; 15 ml Vodka; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 30 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Bittersweet Symphony
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Ingredients:
²⁄₃ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
²⁄₃ oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of apricot slice.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This vodka-laced rollercoaster ride of bitter and sweet mainly features apricot and grapefruit.

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History:

Adapted from a drink created in 2003 by Wayne Collins for Maxxium UK.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Bittersweet Symphony contains 135 calories

Alcohol content:

1.1 standard drinks
15.9% alc./vol. (15.9° proof)
14.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Peter Hodge

13th April at 16:33

I found it a little on the sweet side so added some orange bitters which I think toned it down a little.

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Beverly Stanton

14th January 2023 at 23:47

I found this to be very complex, a nice flavor combination. Made as is and would not change anything. Will make again.

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Miguel Perales

29th March 2022 at 20:25

Wonder if this was named after the song by the The Verve from 1997?....And like the song goes " And I'm a million different people from one day to the next", I think this is a drink that is trying to find out what it is. Bitter? sweet?boozey? fruity?
It starts bitter, then the sweetness followed closely by the lime, and Apricot flavors and ends with a lingering "Kentucky Hug" (as we say in the Bourbon world)- a mild lingering alcohol "burn" in the back of the palate.

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