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Blood Orange Cocktail
Fresh blood orange with a subtle gin backbone, bittersweet herbal notes and vermouth complexity
Braden Pendlebury
20th December 2021 at 02:05
Lacking some sweetness, perhaps my blood oranges are too early in season.
10th January 2022 at 17:01
My experience, exactly. The taste and sweetness of an orange – blood or not – is never absolute, and especially the latter, if low or lacking, must be compensated with a few mls of sugar syrup.