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Paris Midi

Name: Paris Midi
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Crème de cassis; 75 ml Soda water

Difford’s Guide

Discerning Drinkers (12)

Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Crème de cassis liqueur
2 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Thomas Henry Soda Water

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.
Prepare garnish of lemon slice wheel.

Method

STIR first 2 ingredients in glass.
TOP with soda.
FILL glass with ice.

Garnish

Garnish with lemon slice wheel.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Paris Midi contains 97 calories

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
6.47% alc./vol. (12.95° proof)
8.8 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a recipe in the 1934 edition of Bar La Florida Cocktails, the menu booklet of what later became La Floridita.

This is definitely not for children.
Paris Midi
Use a 10-ounces glass.
Cracked ice.
1/3 Creme Cassis.
2/3 Noilly Prat Vermouth.
Sparkling water
Stir with a spoon and serve.
Bar La Florida Cocktails, 1934

Review

Superbly refreshing blackcurrant. Perfect for when sitting outside a Parisian café.

Variations/similar cocktails

Without the addition of soda, this mix of crème de cassis and dry vermouth is simply known as a VC.
Pompier

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Comments & Discussion

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Matt Premium Member 48w

Quite nice and refreshing - the cassis skews this s bit to the sweet side. Creme de cassis works well with dry vermouth - I tried other similar liqueurs (I was trying to polish off a bottle of dry vermouth) - creme de mure was overly sweet, Chambord was (surprisingly) weak, and creme de violet was had a nice bluish color, but wasn't as good as the cassis. I didn't have enough left to properly check out sloe gin - but a small taste made me think that would be very good (I note that the abv of sloe gin is ~2x that of these other liqueur).