Astonishing dry cocktail which we liked after adapting it a bit. I used ¾ oz (store bought) pineapple juice because the maraschino overpowered it totally. It was not at all tropical 🌴.

I prefer it without the sugar syrup so you can fully appreciate the complexity of the different flavours riffing off each other

Revisiting. A bright, fresh no-nonsense classic. I can taste the gin, I can taste the vermouth, I can taste the pineapple and lemon. Slightly sweet from the Luxardo. Wonderful.

Distinctly dry but very delicious. Brilliant as an aperitif, although the drinker will have to like dry vermouth. I used good old Bombay sapphire and thought its sweetness worked well.

Very, very, very, very dry. The dry vermouth takes centre stage with gin and Maraschino following. The pineapple is a mere hum. Definitely for the truly discerning drinker. Give it to someone who's 'generic', and they'd hate it.

This did just not work for me. I found the combination of flavours too sour and spirit-forward.

Great aperitif. Had this to commemorate the start of Prohibition in the US. As the Holland House was the bar Craddock worked on that last day, decided on this. It is nicely dry with a slight hint of pineapple. Would recommend.