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Although it sounds promising, I am not convinced of this cocktail. Maybe it was my combination of ingredients. BTW #Simon: there is a little bug in this recipe on the website. If you choose cl as measure, grenadine will be set to zero 😏.

They drink versions of this cocktail in Louis Malle's 1974 film, "Lacombe, Lucien". Although according the dialogue they are "bad", not least of all because they seem to be missing egg white: "The best Pink Ladies I ever drank were at Rudy Hiden's bar. The best English bar in Paris."

I made this for the first time tonight using an Old Tom Gin -thinking the stone fruit notes would play well with the other ingredients - and a VSOP Calvados. The Old Tom might have a little less bite than a London Dry in this drink, but I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I kept Difford's ratios except I did 1/2 oz of homemade grenadine, same as Ryan. A lot better than I expected, but it sadly not very pink though lol.

Is there an advantage to getting so much of the sweetness from rich syrup instead of grenadine? I just simplified and used 15ml of homemade grenadine and still came out nowhere near overpowering with pomegranate (apple definitely won the "fruit battle"). Anything less (I imagine even WITH the Red40-laden store bought grenadine) is hardly even pink anyway.

Significantly less exciting than it sounds. Good, but...not great.

I tried this but I left out the simple syrup (on purpose) because I was using 3/4 oz/22.5 ml of a commercial "bright red" grenadine syrup (vs my homemade one) to balance the lemon juice and I'm very glad I did. It had an unexpected "fruit candy" flavor to it with a nice citrus sourness. The sweetness provided by the commercial grenadine syrup was enough for me. And yes, it was bright pink.

I used homemade grenadine and it was wonderful!

I like the Death & Co. version of this drink, which ups the grenadine to 1/4 oz and subs in Plymouth gin.