Vieux Mot

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1⁄2 oz Elderflower liqueur
3⁄4 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄3 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of Luxardo Maraschino Cherry.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  5. Garnish with maraschino cherry.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 6/10
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Review:

There's no lychee in this cocktail but the gin, citrus and elderflower combined are reminiscent of lychee.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2007 by Don Lee at PDT, New York City, USA.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Vieux Mot contains 172 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.1 standard drinks
  • 17.12% alc./vol. (17.12° proof)
  • 15.8 grams of pure alcohol

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Miguel Perales’ Avatar Miguel Perales
16th April 2022 at 22:25
I really enjoyed this one. On the nose, it smells like a very good home-made lemonade. I switched same amount of simple syrup (1:1) for the rich syrup since I lean away from sweet cocktails and glad I did. Mid palate, the St-Germain really shines on this one, and it ends with a nice, slightly sour finish.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
17th April 2022 at 09:50
Hi Miguel. You are seeing Plymouth on your iPad and PC because you're logged in on these devices and I presume you have Plymouth in "Your ingredients". As you're not logged in on your iPhone you are seeing my default choice of gin, presently Rutte Dry.
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Miguel Perales’ Avatar Miguel Perales
17th April 2022 at 00:07
Interesting observation. When I look up this cocktail on this website using my iPhone, it lists Rutte Dry Gin as the Gin. If I use my iPad on PC, it lists Plymouth Gin. Everything else is identical. Weird.
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Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
20th November 2021 at 18:43
I used No.3 Gin and maybe a quite sour lemon, so I had to adapt the recipe, as one could not taste the elderflower. My version is 4,5cl Gin, 3cl St.Germain, 2,25cl Lemon juice, 1,5cl Sugar syrup.
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Rebecca Jeanson’s Avatar Rebecca Jeanson
4th November 2020 at 03:03
Tim loves! cut the sugar
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