L'Expérience

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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
1 2⁄3 oz Ketel One Vodka
2⁄3 oz Elderflower liqueur
2⁄3 oz Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
0.42 oz Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 fresh Basil leaves
× 1 1 serving
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How to make:

  1. Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
  2. Prepare garnish of lemongrass stick.
  3. SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
  4. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Strength 6/10
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Sweet to sour 5/10
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Review:

Vodka-laced rich floral elderflower balanced by lemon citrus acidity with basil contributing aromatics.

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History:

The signature cocktail of the French Experimental Group since their first bar in Paris opened in 2007. The Experimental recipe uses elderflower cordial rather than elderflower liqueur but I find many elderflower cordials contribute too much citric acidity in addition to the fresh lemon juice.

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Florian Ruf’s Avatar Florian Ruf
17th April 2022 at 19:05
Refreshing, yet a little bit too sweet for me. Next time I will try 6/2,25/2,25/1 (cl).
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lina linda’s Avatar lina linda
15th April 2022 at 21:32
This is amazing. I made this for 4 people and they all absolutely loved it. It is highly sweet but sour enough - I can only describe it as adult sour patch in the best way. The elderflower brings a great floraly-earthiness to not make it actual sour patch though, so just amazing. Quite intense in every flavour other than bitter alcohol.
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