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I like the sherry nuance to a standard gin sour. Really quite nice. As I like my drinks on the boozy side I also tried with a full 2 oz of gin, Sipsmith, and liked it even more.

Superb cocktail. I used Palo Cortado instead of Fino, which gave a little more punch. I also reduced the sugar syrup slightly as I prefer a 2:1 lemon to sugar ratio. My only issue was that there wasn't enough. Will probably scale up to use 50/60ml gin next time.

I made a small portion of this as written, and loved it. But I wanted something lighter than gin tonight (and to work through that open bottle of fino sherry), so I tried a "reverse" version of this and it was fab... 120ml of fino sherry, 15ml lemon, 10ml simple syrup, just a bar spoon of gin for the flavour, and a couple dashes of orange bitters. Nice if you're in the mood for something slightly less dry.

Tried this with 50ml gin and 25ml fino. With and without bitters. Did not like it AT ALL.

The Grapefruit came through very nicely (with the Orange bitters help I'm guessing). Not too sweet, not too sour, just the way a cocktail should be. Well balanced. (1 of 8 of the "her Maj's" recommendations)

I found this cocktail fairly average, surprisingly. However, the Fino I used had been open for a few days so that might explain it. Also, the colour is nothing like that in the picture here - is that the 'other' London Calling with sloe gin?

I love gin and I love Fino Sherry so that it for me, cheers1

I had a little tinker with this, swapped pink grapefruit juice for the lemon juice, honey syrup (3:1, using London Honey from the London Honey Company) instead of sugar syrup, upping the quantity to 1/3 shot, a couple of dashes of lemon bitters (Lem-Marrakech from Bittered Sling) and a lemon zest garnish. I call it Peckham Calling, it's where both myself and some of the honey bees live!