Elle for Leather

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Serve in

a Collins glass...
1½ fl oz Dewar's 12 Year Old 'The Ancestor' blended Scotch whisky
1 fl oz Vanilla liqueur
¼ fl oz Freshly squeezed lemon juice
⅛ fl oz Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)
Top up with Brut Champagne
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How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into glass filled with crushed ice. TOP with champagne.

Garnish:

Vanilla pod

Comment:

A long, cooling champagne cocktail pepped up with scotch whisky, smoothed with vanilla liqueur. Easy drinking - yet adult.

About:

Created in 2001 by Reece Clark at Hush Up, London, England.

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