Name: Moonlight Cocktail (Harry Craddock's recipe)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 7.5 ml Kirschwasser; 30 ml Sauvignon blanc wine; 37.5 ml Pink grapefruit juice

Moonlight Cocktail (Harry Craddock's recipe)
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₄ oz	Kirschwasser (cherry) eau-de-vie
1 oz	Sauvignon blanc wine
1 ¹⁄₄ oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Sauvignon blanc wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

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

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History:

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

MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL.
(6 people)
1½ Glasses Grape-fruit Juice.
2 Glasses Gin.
½ Glass Kirsch.
2 Glasses White Wine.
Add ice and shake thoroughly. Serve by placing in each glass a thin shaving of lemon peel.
A very dry cocktail.
Harry Craddock, The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930

Nutrition:

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

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
15.54% alc./vol. (15.54° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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John Hinojos

26th March at 23:52

Four years later, and we are bigger fans of gin. Still love the combinations of flavours and dryness of the cocktail. Delightful

John Hinojos

27th March 2021 at 00:11

I am not a big gin drinker, but this is great. The mixture with the grapefruit and wine creates a cocktail with perfect balance. No taste dominates; however, there is a lingering grapefruit after taste. Would recommend.