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Crime of Passion

Name: Crime of Passion
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Passion fruit vodka; 20 ml Yuzushu liqueur; 20 ml Pink grapefruit juice; 7.5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

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Ingredients
1 ²⁄₃ fl oz	Passion fruit flavoured vodka
²⁄₃ fl oz	Akashi-Tai Ginjo Yuzushu
²⁄₃ fl oz	Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₄ fl oz	Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix
3 drop	Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional)

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Freddo Old Fashioned

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.
Prepare garnish of grapefruit wedge.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with grapefruit wedge.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Crime of Passion contains 185 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
16.58% alc./vol. (33.15° proof)
17.4 grams of pure alcohol

History

Adapted from a recipe from Absolut Vodka in April 2025.

Review

Sweet and sour with passion fruit, yuzu and grapefruit.

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Sherri Sokolovich 1y

Where is the yuzu in this recipe? And where is the sour? The pink grapefruit juice isn’t enough to balance the syrup and plum wine?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 1y

Thanks for bringing to my attention. It should be yuzushu in the recipe. Not plum wine. Now corrected.