Name: Gin Sangaree (Sangre)
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Old Tom gin; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 30 ml Tawny port

Gin Sangaree (Sangre)
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Serve in a Flute glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's Old Tom Gin
¹⁄₄ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
1 oz	Cockburn's Tawny Eyes Port

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Garnish: Dust with freshly grated nutmeg

How to make:

SHAKE gin and sugar with ice and strain into chilled glass. Lastly POUR the port wine which will sink through drink and mix, leaving a thin clear layer at the top.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Tawny port - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Review:

Either drink through the layers or stir before consuming. Fabulously old-school in style, this sweetened port and old tom gin drink resembles chilled mulled wine.

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History:

The Sangaree takes its name from the Spanish word for blood, Sangre. The drink's origins date back to the early 1700s and it first appears in writing in a 1736 issue of the British Gentleman's Magazine, "... a punch seller in the Strand had devised a new punch made of strong Madeira wine and called Sangre".

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
23.03% alc./vol. (23.03° proof)
22.5 grams of pure alcohol

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