Name: Blood Orange Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 40 ml Gin; 20 ml Red bitter liqueur; 20 ml Dry vermouth; 40 ml Blood orange juice; 5 ml Amaretto liqueur

Blood Orange Cocktail
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Ingredients:
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Red Bitter (Campari-style liqueur)
²⁄₃ oz	Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 ¹⁄₃ oz	Blood orange juice
¹⁄₆ oz	Disaronno amaretto optional

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of orange zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS orange zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Dry vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Fresh blood orange with a subtle gin backbone, bittersweet herbal notes and vermouth complexity.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2008 by Jeffrey Morgenthaler at Bel Ami Lounge in Oregon, USA. The optional addition of a barspoon (5ml) amaretto is thanks to a suggestion by Tibor Szentirmai, a fellow Discerning Drinker.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Blood Orange Cocktail contains 196 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
15.58% alc./vol. (15.58° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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C N

6th April at 01:39

This was good, but not great. I found the overall flavors to be rather muddled together.

Egg McKenzie

5th April at 21:43

tastes pleasant but i was after a bit more OOMPH.

Miguel Perales

19th March at 23:25

Very nice cocktail. My blood oranges might have been on the "sweet" side so it was ever so slightly sweet. May try adding the orange bitters next time.

David Martin

20th June 2024 at 17:26

I make a version of this with San Pellegrino Aranciata Rossa
(Blood Orange) when Blood Oranges aren't available and, its my fave summer cocktail, including all my friends that have tried it.

Robert Arnold

16th February 2024 at 21:56

Great. Another suggests a dash of orange bitters in place of the Disaronno. I will try that the next time.

Tibor Szentirmai

5th February 2024 at 00:39

+5ml (1 barspoon) Amaretto, thank me later....

Simon Difford

17th February 2024 at 09:43

I'll thank you now, Tibor. Thanks!

Dave Smith

17th July 2023 at 00:01

Wow. We had a couple of blood oranges that we needed to eat. The cool search capability of this app (thanks Simon) turned up this cocktail. What a find. Backed off the gin a little to 1.25, Campari.5, vermouth.5 and OJ 1.25.

Alex Powell

27th February 2023 at 10:31

Highly enjoyable boozy aperitivo, a fun alternative to a negroni. As others have said the quality of the outcome is highly dependent on the quality of the oranges.

Doris Magnus

6th February 2023 at 00:55

It was really good. Bit on the booze side. Enjoyed the Campari and blood orange juice

Calvin Grant

8th February 2022 at 04:31

Loved how bitter this cocktail was. Beefeeter's juniper and Luxardo Bitter Rosso combined well and led seamlessly into a Dolin dry/ blood orange finish. I kept taking sips to see if these flavors were emerging sequentially and the next thing you know, my drink was gone. The quality of the oranges was among the best I have found locally and surely made a big difference. Big five.

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