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Love both types of gimlets. My family was more into consuming vodka than gin, so many gin recipes were converted into vodka. This was perfect. Right amount of sweet to sour.
As gin has the herbal flavours, wonder if this may benefit with a few drops of a bitter to add more flavours? Thinking maybe Difford's Daiquiri bitters?

I was told years and years ago to remember the recipe for Gimlet as having gin in it: GIM-let, GIN; get it?... I whittled down this recipe to: 75 ml vodka (Ketel One), 15 ml lime juice, 7.5 ml 2:1 cane simple, and it was good, but begging for more character... Next time I try this, I'll definitely use a great lime cordial and probably also do the 50:50 as well with lemon and lime too, because I've tried a Ramos Fizz with just lime and just lemon and the combo is much more pleasing. So it goes.

I first heard mention of this drink during lockdowns 2020-21 when re-watching the HBO black comedy "Six Feet Under": a protagonist, David Fisher, consumes about five of them at a cinema bar, after he has walked out of the screening which has raised too many ghosts... In the show he merely asks for another "Gimlet"... This is one cocktail I have come back to time and again for a quick "hit" (as needed) and I really like its laconic and acerbic qualities combined with distinguished lemon and lime.