Name: Grand Sidecar
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Grand Marnier; 30 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

2 fl oz

Grand Marnier or other cognac orange liqueur

1 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water (omit if using wet ice)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

RIM glass with sugar (moisten the outside edge with orange juice and dip into sugar).

Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS orange 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 Grand Sidecar contains 154 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.81% alc./vol. (33.61° proof)
18.9 grams of pure alcohol

Review

A riff on the classic Sidecar that's even simpler to make but equally tasty.

Grand Marnier Cordon Rouge consists of 51% cognac so there is no need to add cognac to make a great Sidecar, simply add lemon juice. This drink benefits from a touch of dilution so also works well served on-the-rocks in an old-fashioned glass.

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member 34w

It's really nicely balanced, although we did throw in a dash of orange bitters. While complex enough, the 'real' Sidecars are decidedly more so. A great option, for its simplicity, for the cocktail menu for a large afternoon BBQ gathering when you just know that the drinks orders will be coming at you like bats out of hell.

Theo Clark 1y

This is a delightfully simple cocktail and a shockingly excellent sidecar. I found a barspoon of simple syrup brought the drink into perfect balance, personally.

Meredith Frost 1y

I’ve been looking for something that is really easy to make and really tasty. This fits the bill. Not too sweet and not too boozy. It’s like Goldilocks.

John CARR Premium Member 1y

Got snookered by the local lemons on my first attempt and had to do a lot of rebalancing as could barely taste the GM. Cut it to just over half for the second attempt. Dilution however was perfect. Went with Big Rock version which was excellent. ..With the citrus reigned in as appropriate to the supply, the beautiful honeyed notes of the liqueur were really on show. Great drink!