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Calvados Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.13) image

Calvados Fruit Cup (Difford's Cup No.13)

The crisp dry apple freshness that calvados brings to this fruity long drink makes it one of the best base spirits in a fruit cup.

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The StiG

Whiter than white (actually white wine golden) yet mysterious. As for the taste, white wine acidity balances rich elderflower with spirituous lacing from

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General Harrison's Nogg

A whole raw egg contributes body to this filling, flavoursome, wintry, delicate cocktail. The retained CO2 fizz of the cider adds essential body and balancing

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French 75 (Difford's recipe)

I've Colin Field to thank for my French 75 epiphany. One evening in early June 2017 I was sat at his bar (Bar Hemingway) and he showed me the vintage 75ml

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Journey of Brothers

Dry and lightly fruity with herbal minerality, this is a superbly refreshing and complex long drink.

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Warday's Cocktail

Apple brandy with complex botanical influences from both gin and Chartreuse mellowed by botanically enriched fortified wine. If you like spirit-forward

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Marigny

Spirituous, sour, balanced and delicious with herbal notes, two brandies, and citrus freshness.

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Apple Brandy Sour

Sour by name - balanced sweet and sour apple by nature.

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Apple Cart

A splash of apple liqueur helps balance this otherwise overly sour calvados-based Sidecar.

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Angel Face

Rich apricot and apple with a backbone of botanical gin. Balanced rather than dry or sweet. This drink looks better when stirred but the Harry Craddock's

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Ante

Medium-dry, spiritous aromatised apple with delicate grape/berry fruit and faint orange.

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Apple Blossom Cocktail

Concentrated lightly herbal apple with subtle zesty citrus. Quick to make and stupidly simple yet delicious.

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The Delicious Sour

Tis rather.

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Honeymoon

This equal parts apple brandy and Bénédictine recipe broadly follows Ensslin's 1916 (the first published) recipe and is not only faithful to the original

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Jack Collins

Apple brandy makes a great base spirit in this refreshing classic.

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Jack Rose Cocktail

In his 1948 The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, David Embury says, a Jack Rose is nothing but a Pink Apple Car and when made with just calvados, lemon juice

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Long Flight of Stairs

A seriously tasty, strong, long drink. The name is a reversal of the London rhyming slang 'apples and pears' (stairs).

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Twelve Miles Out Cocktail

Stir or shake (as originally stipulated in The Savoy Cocktail Book) this cocktail is still boozy. However, it's also wonderfully aromatic with all three

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Pan American Clipper

Essentially a Jack Rose with a couple of dashes of absinthe. (If making this with bonded strength applejack in place of calvados then knockback to 50ml.)

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Royal Smile

This balanced sweet and sour cocktail could put a smile on anyone's face. Unless that is, one is not amused! Calvados notes shine through.

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75 Cocktail (MacElhone's 1926 recipe)

Like the gun this cocktail is named after, this small drink packs a hell of a punch, and to ensure it does, MacElhone calls for a couple of dashes of absinthe

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Widow's Kiss

Herbal with hints of apple, mint and eucalyptus. This classic is also often made with green Chartreuse but we prefer as per classic recipes with half Yellow

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Autumn Leaves

Whiskey, apple brandy, vermouth and herbal liqueur combine delightfully.

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Orchard Crush

Apple brandy and damson jam combine brilliantly in this tangy but not at all sweet cocktail.

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