Name: Aviation (Difford's recipe)
Total time: 3 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 52.5 ml Gin; 15 ml Maraschino liqueur; 7.5 ml Crème de violette; 15 ml Lemon juice; 7.5 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

1 3/4 fl oz

Hayman's London Dry Gin

1/2 fl oz

Luxardo Maraschino liqueur

1/4 fl oz

Rothman & Winter Crème de Violette Liqueur

1/2 fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

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

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist (& optional sugar rim).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

EXPRESS lemon 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 Aviation (Difford's recipe) contains 173 calories

Alcohol content:

1.6 standard drinks
21.06% alc./vol. (42.13° proof)
22 grams of pure alcohol

Gallery

Aviation (Difford's recipe) lifestyle image

Comments & Discussion

Please log in to make a comment

Carolina Star 6 days ago

My all time favourite cocktail. I double the amount of crème de violette, which results in a more vibrant colour and to me also results in a more interesting flavour combination.

It needs to be shaken properly so it is diluted down a bit. Sometimes add a dash of water.

Jimmy Caps 2 months ago

Three words: perfect; love it!

Jon Pidwerbecki 5 months ago

Monitor the lemon juice to taste. too little too sweet, too much too tart. A go to recipe

Dave D. 7 months ago

Love this balance . Mixed exactly and I like to use Hendrick’s. And I too, add a Luxardo for taste and color. One of my favorites and I’be introduced it to several people and they now make it as their “Vikings” cocktail due to color!

david77 7 months ago

i do 2oz of gin and reduce marachino liquor to 1/4oz. i stir instead of shaking. while i do express the lemon peel, i drop a luxardo maraschino cherry on the bottom of the glass. the end result is a more pronounced creme de violet, including color, cocktail. eating the cherry when the cocktail is gone is a nice icing.

Simon Sedgley 8 months ago

We think of this as a Gin and Creme de Violette variant of the Daiquiri #4. Those commenters here reaching for the sugar syrup seem to want to nudge it in that direction. We tone the Violette down to 5ml. Really delicious.

Jon Pidwerbecki 8 months ago

Wonderful as prescribed. The proper dilution with a little added water fully develops the wonderful drink. I’m cautious of lemons and limes as the consistency varies greatly. I’m a shaker for this drink and drop one Lexardo cherry in the bottom with a small amount of cherry syrup as a nest. No need to stir

Bob Cook 8 months ago

This recipe has the virtue of going light on the creme de violette (personally, I could go even lighter). Some of the comments suggest adding a little simple syrup, but the maraschino liqueur makes it sweet enough for me. Also, using lime juice instead of lemon juice is an interesting variation.

Tuber Magnatum 11 months ago

I ove this cocktail but this time tried as per suggestion of others of adding some rich simple syrup. For me 2.5ml / .5 tsp struck a great balance with the lemon. I wonder though if one uses the optional sugar rim if that would negate the need for the syrup. Will try this next time. (As an aside, for those looking for the lovely light blue hue of the sky, I can't recommend Bitter Truth's Crème de Violette highly enough!)