Name: Moonlight Cocktail (Harry Craddock's recipe)
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie; 30 ml Sauvignon blanc wine; 37.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Lemon zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 1/2 fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
1/4 fl oz	Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
1 fl oz	Sauvignon blanc wine
1 1/4 fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
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Review:

Craddock describes this as 'a very dry cocktail'. It is, but pleasantly so.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Harry Craddock's 1930 The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Nutrition:

One serving of Moonlight Cocktail (Harry Craddock's recipe) contains 152 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
17.69% alc./vol. (35.38° proof)
21.2 grams of pure alcohol

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