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Tango Cocktail (from the Bellagio)

Passion fruit liqueur, balanced by tart grapefruit and fortified with gin
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simon kitchen’s Avatar simon kitchen
29th June 2020 at 16:35
Both my daughters like a Porn Star Martini and during lockdown we couldn't get lemons and limes, but could get grapefruit so we decided to try this cocktail. My daughters enjoy this more than me and would probably score this a bit higher. I found it a fraction too sweet for my taste and we did try without the sugar syrup, but, as we found out, the sugar syrup is needed to balance the "bitterness" of the grapefruit, not the sourness.
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Simon Difford’s Avatar Simon Difford
1st July 2020 at 20:11
It's 17 years since I last tried this cocktail and in that time glasses and serves have much reduced in scale. Hence, I scaled this drink back and while doing so I've also rebalanced to remove the sugar syrup. Happily, it's now a 3-ingredient cocktail and hopefully also better balanced.
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