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Moonlight Cocktail (Harry Craddock's recipe)

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

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (8)

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 1/2 fl oz	Hayman's London 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)

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Coupe glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 (Harry Craddock's recipe) contains 152 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.73% alc./vol. (31.45° proof)
20.2 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Sauvignon Blanc wine — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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

Review

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

Comments & Discussion

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John Hinojos Premium Member 1y

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

John Hinojos Premium Member 5y

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.