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

Charente Collins
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Serve in a Collins glass

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

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Garnish: Mint sprig & orange zest twist

How to make:

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.

Review:

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

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History:

Refreshing orange and lemon with a hint of elderflower.

Also see Collins Cocktails - recipes & history.

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Chris Dimal

22nd June 2023 at 09:03

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

12th September 2022 at 03:48

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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