Name: Red Dragon
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Orange Curaçao; 22.5 ml Blood orange juice; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Grenadine syrup

Red Dragon
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe

Ingredients:
1 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
1 oz	Orange Curaçao liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Blood orange juice
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Grenadine Syrup

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Prepare:

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

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Blood orange juice, orange curaçao and grenadine add colour and flavour to a Gin Sour.

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History:

A cocktail of unknown origins, which I suspect was created post-late 1990s. Often made to celebrate St. David's Day on the 1st March.

Nutrition:

One serving of Red Dragon contains 220 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
14.93% alc./vol. (29.85° proof)
17.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Michael Click

27th November at 00:57

The taste reminds me somewhat of a grown-up Hawaiian Punch.

Tuber Magnatum

27th October at 21:44

An excellent cocktail which as Berverly and as the Taste & Strength guide notes is both sweet and tart; a perfect combination! Notwithstanding this cocktail is associated with St. David's Day in March, this would make an excellent XMAS cocktail. Not only is it delicious, it is red and both pomegranates from which Grenadine is made and blood oranges are winter fruits associated, at least in Canada, with XMAS. (For those who have wondered about the origins of the name grenadine, it is a derivative of grenade, the French word for pomegranate!)

Beverly Stanton

29th March at 22:50

Very nice cocktail. I found this to be both sweet and tart. Would not change a thing. Starts a bit sweet finishes on the tart side. Will make again.

Chris Brislawn

28th March at 04:20

It's plenty big as presented, which makes it easy to cut the curacao back to 3/4 oz and the grenadine (I used pomegranate liqueur) back to 1/4 oz. Still plenty sweet and red enough, and very citrusy. Another great blood orange juice recipe. Now I need to try it with P. Ferrand Limited Edition Late Harvest Moroccan Yuzu Curacao.

Miguel Perales

17th March at 23:55

This was a little too sweet for me. I will try it with half amount of grenadine syrup next time to see if it balances better. A "work in progress" cocktail.

Frederic D.

14th March at 20:12

The recipe calls for lemon juice in addition to both curacao and blood orange liqueur (Solerno), while the review section mentions blood orange juice and curacao. Could one of those be incorrect?

Simon Difford

15th March at 09:37

Many thanks for bringing to my attention. Should be blood orange juice (not liqueur). Now corrected.

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