Name: South Slope
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 22.5 ml Gin; 22.5 ml Orange-red aperitivo; 22.5 ml Aromatized wine; 15 ml Orange Curaçao; 15 ml Lemon juice

Ingredients

³⁄₄ fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

³⁄₄ fl oz

Bittersweet orange-red aperitivo

³⁄₄ fl oz

Aromatized wine (e.g. Lillet Blanc)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ferrand Dry Curaçao liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a NICK & NORA GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 South Slope contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
16.27% alc./vol. (32.53° proof)
17 grams of pure alcohol

Comments & Discussion

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Dave Smith 12w

I like this one. Took Jeff’s idea on Campari. Subbed in Cointreau for dry curaçao as I have that ingredient. Congrats to the creator of it.

Jeff Durbin 27w

My wife and I were not into this. Too sweet. Perhaps with Campari instead.

Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 44w

A really lovely drink; an excellent as billed, apertivo style cocktail. It is light, refreshing, and with just the right amount of sour. No doubt this would be a terrific crowd pleaser.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

This is really great and deserves to be better known - contemporary classic indeed. I had to do a bit of subbing - no aperol so half/half punt e mes and byrrh and 5ml sugar syrup. As a fan of the sweet n sour this was great. Will def be back to try a closer spec version. William’s suggestion of a dash or spray of absinthe would def work here.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Second version with 15mL Lillet, 10 each Luxardo bitter Bianco and Cocchi Rosa, 5 Campari. This is a great base recipe and happily repaid my messing about with it.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

I dips me lid to you John...you are the sorcerer's apprentice of the cocktail world. Cheers.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Why thank you, kind sir. There Muse must have been upon me… or was the mother of invention at least 😉!

Peter Shaw Premium Member 1y

Tried it long (part of my New Year resolution) and it really is a delightful, light, smooth cocktail.

Sarah Dodd 3y

Great with Campari and Cocchi Americano!

William Smith 4y

Interesting. Kind of a Corpse Reviver 2, with the orange candy-slice flavor of Aperol replacing the Maraschino. Next time, I might add a dash of absinthe.

Karsten Ronnenberg 4y

Grabbed the Campari bottle by accident (#reddishliquid) which was nice. The right recipe with Aperol is far better though. Turns out to be a favourite of the wife AND the mother in law. What more can you expect?

John Tovey 5y

Best new cocktail I've tried for ages. It's like a more complex and grapefruity Paper Plane and - while perhaps less drinkable - it makes for a genuinely interesting apperotif. Would be interested in the Lillet Blanc variants.