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Charente Collins

Name: Charente Collins
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 5 fresh Mint leaves; 60 ml Grand Marnier; 30 ml Elderflower liqueur; 30 ml Lemon juice

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Ingredients
5 fresh	Mint leaves
2 fl oz	Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur
1 fl oz	Elderflower liqueur
1 fl oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

Garnish: Mint sprig & orange zest twist

How to make

Glassware

Serve in a Collins glass

Method:

Lightly MUDDLE mint in base of shaker (just to bruise). Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice. Serve with straws.

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

23.7 grams of pure alcohol

History

Refreshing orange and lemon with a hint of elderflower.

Also see Collins Cocktails - recipes & history.

Review

Created in 2005 by Kieran Bailey, The Light Bar, London, England.

Comments & Discussion

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Chris Dimal 3y

My first drink with a Cognac-Orange liqueur. The orange is truly rich, supplanted with wonderfully citrusy lemon and fresh mint. I have to say that the elderflower gets lost, but it could be my much more inferior Marie Brizard Fleur de Sureau.

Jose Cruz 3y

Amazing, try 10 mint leafs, and for fancy garnish do orange peel rose with mint stem and leafs in the middle.

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