Golden Fortune

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 barspoon Orange marmalade
1 1⁄3 oz Ketel One Vodka
1 oz Kumquat liqueur
1⁄3 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1⁄2 oz Agave syrup
× 1 1 serving
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Garnish: Half kumquat on rim

How to make:

STIR marmalade with vodka in base of shaker to dissolve marmalade. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 7/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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Review:

A golden kumquat-flavoured sour with bittersweet orange marmalade.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe, originally based on Kavka Vodka, by Karol Terejlis for Fortunella liqueur.

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Simon Sedgley’s Avatar Simon Sedgley
23rd July 2024 at 09:07
This has a lovely, delicate balance. I suspect that choice of marmalade will send it more or less towards sweet and away from sour. We used an English breakfast marmalade that probably nudged it more than gently in the direction of sweet. Next time we'll up the lemon juice by at least half again.
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Martin Pryce’s Avatar Martin Pryce
5th May 2022 at 21:06
A rare ingredient I picked up on a trip to Corfu - kumquat liquer is an island speciality. This is very clean, vibrant kumquat and stone fruit flavours, on sweeter side.
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