This is a modern classic created at a bar in London’s SOHO district in 1984. Use caution – this goes down easy, and if you happen to be using navy-strength gin – well, you’ve been warned. I love all things berry flavored, and the combination of Chambord with muddled berries, gin and lemon are just too good. Among my top ten cocktails, no doubt.
Ingredients
- 2 oz St. George Terroir Gin
- 3/4 oz Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice
- 1/2 oz Simple Syrup
- 3/4 oz Creme de Mure or Chambord
Method
- Add all ingredients to shaker.
- Add ice, shake about 15 seconds.
- Strain over fresh crushed ice in an old- fashioned glass.
- Garnish.
- The easiest way to tweak the original is to swap in a different base spirit for the gin, like a dry pisco or grassy rhum agricole, or to drizzle the liqueur on top.