Name: Miss Moonshine
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Poteen/Poitín; 20 ml Aromatized wine; 10 ml Gentian liqueur; 10 ml Elderflower liqueur; 10 ml Rosemary syrup; 2 dash Orange bitters

Miss Moonshine
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Photographed in a Retro Coupe Engraved 7.75oz

Ingredients:
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Poteen/Poitín
²⁄₃ oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)
¹⁄₃ oz	Gentian liqueur (e.g. Suze, Salers etc)
¹⁄₃ oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₃ oz	Rosemary sugar syrup (2:1)
2 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare rosemary sprig for garnish.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with rosemary sprig.

Cocktail of the day:

18th November 2025 is International Poitín Day

Review:

Gentian, elderflower and rosemary combine harmoniously, over a Poitín base with aromatised wine.

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History:

Created in 2014 by Louis Lebaillif at Hawksmoor Air Street, London, England.

Nutrition:

One serving of Miss Moonshine contains 233 calories

Alcohol content:

1.8 standard drinks
24.78% alc./vol. (24.78° proof)
24.9 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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Nikolaus Linder

31st March at 15:14

Well balanced with a subtle punch of rosemary and gentian -- a true 'wunderwerk' :)

Nikolaus Linder

31st March at 15:32

But the link is faulty, it points to Dec 18 instead of Nov 18 ;)

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Sally Morgan

18th May 2024 at 21:22

Should you not have rosemary syrup to hand you can muddle a rosemary sprig and add the same amount of sugar syrup.

I can’t believe the official units of alcohol though - surely a miscalculation!

Simon Difford

19th May 2024 at 09:30

Thanks Sally. Alcohol units arehopefully now correct.

Donna Inch

19th November 2022 at 22:11

The ingredients blend together nicely. I used a rosemary clove syrup and poitin from local (Ontario, Canada) producers. Bit sweeter than my bitter palate normally likes, but quite smooth and a nice alcoholic kick

Peter Griffith

8th January 2022 at 23:00

This is a seriously good cocktail, with notes of chocolate emerging from the poitin. Alas, I fear I must not show it to my Irish neighbor who gave me the Poitin. I can hear her voice “Jayzus, just pour the poitin into a shot glass and knock it back already”.

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