Name: White Spider
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml Acqua Bianca liqueur

White Spider
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Photographed in an UB Nick and Nora Gold 6oz

Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Ketel One Vodka
³⁄₄ oz	Acqua Bianca liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Nick & Nora glass.
Prepare Fragata Green Olive for garnish.
STIR all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
Garnish with green olive.

Strength & taste guide:

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Dry/sour

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Review:

A cleansing Martini-style cocktail with sophisticated citrus, rose and mint notes.

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History:

A White Spider is another name for a Vodka Stinger (vodka and white crème de menthe) and in 2020 Salvatore Calabrese, at London's Donovan Bar, adapted this vodka-based classic cocktail to use his Acqua Bianca, an alternative white crème de menthe liqueur.

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Nutrition:

One serving of White Spider contains 140 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
27.3% alc./vol. (27.3° proof)
18.4 grams of pure alcohol

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Simon Sedgley

2nd July 2024 at 10:52

We thought this was delightfully simple and perfectly balanced. So much so that we decided to try it substituting gin for the vodka. We enjoyed that also but perhaps, with gin, the 2:1 ratio doesn't offer the perfect balance of the original.

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