Name: Moonlight Cocktail (Gaz Regan's)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Crème de violette; 7.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Lemon juice

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Rothman & Winter Crème de Violette Liqueur

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a FLUTE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Moonlight Cocktail (Gaz Regan's) contains 191 calories

Alcohol content:

1.7 standard drinks
23.03% alc./vol. (46.06° proof)
24.1 grams of pure alcohol

History

This riff on the classic Aviation was created by Gary "gaz" Regan and first published in his The Cocktailian column in the San Francisco Chronicle on 27 September 2007. Gaz wrote, "After making my new baby I took it for a stroll around my deck and gazed up at the moon. It was off-white that evening, but it had a faint purplish hue to it. Just like my drink. The Moonlight Cocktail was born."

For the story behind the origins of the Aviation and its many other variations see our Aviation cocktail page.

Comments & Discussion

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Rob de Santos Premium Member 6w

Loved it. I made it to instructions and then experimented by adding 2 dashes of Scrappy's Lavender bitters.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member 1y

Since Maraschino liqueur isn't ny favourite I tried this out and it's honestly perfect for my taste buds. It's violette forward, similar to the Aviation, but without the astringency that comes with Maraschino. I used Dry Curacao and to me that worked fabulously. It's really great to see violette where it gets to shine without overpowering or getting overpowered by the other ingredients!

Katie ALLEN 2y

Accidentally used bianco vermouth rather than Cointreau, having Arsenic and Old Lace in mind.
Still delish!

Dávid Ugróczi 2y

Made it with 15 ml of lime, it was pretty well balanced, the créme de violette wasn't as overpowering as I expected. It's definitely more approachable than the Aviation.

Letti Penguin Premium Member 2y

I always make this when I have a little bit of lemon and lime juice left over. Tastes like refreshers (the fizzy fruit sweets) in alcoholic liquid form. A firm house favourite.

Miguel Perales Premium Member 3y

Not much into "floral" cocktails, but this was really good. Nicely balanced. Nose was very "citrusy" and the Creme de Viollete was very prevalent upfront on the palate, with a nice citrus finish. A definite recommend.

Matija Prelec 3y

Very gin forward, would have to try out with other gins. Rest of it is a nice base to round things off. I wonder how it would go with Botanist or Old Pilot's.