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An excellent cocktail which as Berverly and as the Taste & Strength guide notes is both sweet and tart; a perfect combination! Notwithstanding this cocktail is associated with St. David's Day in March, this would make an excellent XMAS cocktail. Not only is it delicious, it is red and both pomegranates from which Grenadine is made and blood oranges are winter fruits associated, at least in Canada, with XMAS. (For those who have wondered about the origins of the name grenadine, it is a derivative of grenade, the French word for pomegranate!)
It's plenty big as presented, which makes it easy to cut the curacao back to 3/4 oz and the grenadine (I used pomegranate liqueur) back to 1/4 oz. Still plenty sweet and red enough, and very citrusy. Another great blood orange juice recipe. Now I need to try it with P. Ferrand Limited Edition Late Harvest Moroccan Yuzu Curacao.
This was a little too sweet for me. I will try it with half amount of grenadine syrup next time to see if it balances better. A "work in progress" cocktail.
The recipe calls for lemon juice in addition to both curacao and blood orange liqueur (Solerno), while the review section mentions blood orange juice and curacao. Could one of those be incorrect?