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Gardenia

Name: Gardenia
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Gin; 15 ml Dry vermouth; 15 ml Aromatized wine; 5 ml Chartreuse Yellow; 5 ml Apricot liqueur; 5 ml Elderflower liqueur; 1.25 ml Orange flower water; 1 dash Orange bitters

Difford’s Guide

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Measurements in:

Serves:

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Ingredients
1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth (chilled)
¹⁄₂ fl oz	Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc) (chilled)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Yellow Chartreuse (or génépy liqueur)
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur
¹⁄₆ fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
¹⁄₂₄ fl oz	Fee Brothers Orange Flower Water
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura

How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Plain Retro Coupette 15cl

Prepare

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

Method

STIR all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

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

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gardenia contains 178 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
24.53% alc./vol. (49.07° proof)
22.5 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

History

Adapted from a cocktail discovered in July 2024 at Arnaud's French 75 Bar in New Orleans, USA. The original recipe calls for "fig-infused Dorothy Parker Gin".

Review

A floral, stone fruit and delicately herbal riff on a Dry Martini.

Hayman's London Dry Gin 750ml - makes 16.5 cocktails
$33.99 $2.06 per cocktail Hayman's London Dry Gin image

Lillet Blanc 750ml - makes 50 cocktails
$22.99 $0.46 per cocktail Lillet Blanc image

Luxardo Apricot Albicocca Liqueur 750ml - makes 150.5 cocktails
$29.99 $0.20 per cocktail

St Germain Elderflower Liqueur 200ml - makes 40 cocktails
$14.99 $0.37 per cocktail

Angostura Orange Bitters 120ml - makes 384 cocktails
$13.99 $0.04 per cocktail Angostura Orange Bitters image

$3.13 per cocktail*

Makes a minimum of 16.5 cocktails.
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Jonathan Goldthorpe 1y

Deliciously fresh and fruity with a lively balance of the apricot and the elderflower as a contrast.

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