Name: Cheeky Vimto
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Ruby port; 1 bottle WKD Original Blue

Cheeky Vimto
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Serve in a Boston glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Cockburn's Ruby Soho Port
1 bottle	WKD Original Blue

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Garnish: Don't bother

How to make:

Pour port into glass and TOP with WKD Blue.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Ruby port - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Review:

A sickly sweet blackcurrant and berry fruit flavoured drink for the undiscerning.

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Variant:

To make an 'Extra Cheeky Vimto' add 1 shot of vodka prior to topping with WKD Blue.

History:

So named as this cocktail's flavour resembles Vimto, a brand of fruit juice-based soft drink. The Cheeky Vimto cocktail emerged in Britain in the early Noughties but became famous in June 2005 when the Daily Mail newspaper reported it as being Welsh singer-songwriter, Charlotte Church's favourite drink. She was then something of a teen diva party animal so the paper used the catchy headline, "Wild Charlotte's binge-drinking shame".

Despite the name, the soft drink Vimto is not an ingredient in this drink, but for the record, it is a sweet purple-coloured soft drink containing grape, raspberry and blackcurrant juices and flavoured with herbs and spices. Vimto cordial was created in 1908 in Timperley, Cheshire, England by John Noel Nichols, a wholesaler of spices and medicines.

Nutrition:

One serving of Cheeky Vimto contains 95 calories

Alcohol content:

0.7 standard drinks
17.27% alc./vol. (17.27° proof)
10.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Ian Fenton

18th February 2024 at 03:57

Sounds like it’s worth about two stars less than you awarded it.

Mal Stu

5th April 2023 at 11:47

A drink that can only be appreciated as a sticky-nightclub-floor swigger. ?

Lea Beckerleg

15th March 2022 at 18:53

This sounds a bit grim. My local favourite bar The Libertine has version that is quite yummy. Vodka, blue curaçao italicus citrus and Vimto - over crushed ice and garnished with a lollipop. Very slurpable. I haven’t quite worked out the measures as yet though!

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