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This simple cocktail is standart woman cocktail as specify many authors. Equal parts of gin and sweet vermouth (It) and some interesting for garnish. My favorite Salvatore “Maestro” Calabrese garnish own Gin & It with a maraschino cherry and orange peel. I think is it optimal choice for this cocktail :)

Gin & It

35 ml sweet vermouth
35 ml gin
Stir. Cocktail glass. Garnish with a red maraschino cherry and orange peel.

The Gin & It Cocktail has good-balanced sweet and dry herbal taste. It is good evening cocktail and not for woman only. Some mixologist (like Dale DeGroff) reccomend to add some drops of Angostura bitter in the Gin & It Cocktail.

Gin & It (Dale DeGroff)

35 ml sweet vermouth
35 ml gin
1 dash Angostura bitter
Stir. Cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

This version has more complex palate with wide herbal bitternes of Angostura. It is good cocktail for any romantic evening.

The Lucien Gaudin Cocktail is one of key-cocktail for my blogging. Some years ago this cocktail was found at Slakethirst (now defunct) and I was fascinated by it.

The Lucien Gaudin is an interesting cocktail which consist of four components - gin (as main alcohol), vermouth (deluent), cointreau (sweetener) and Campari (for piquant taste).

Lucien Gaudin Cocktail

30 ml gin
15 ml vermouth dry
15 ml cointreau
15 ml Campari
Stir. Cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

The Lucien Gaudin Cocktail is awesome drink with compose bitter-sweet palate. It is great aperetive.

P.S. The Lucien Gaudin Cocktail is so popular in mixosphere - about Lucien Gaudin Cocktail wrote drohnenton (russian), anonimous с (Slakethirst), Robert Hess (DrinkBoy) for The Spirit World, Rick Stutz (Kaiser Pinguin), Paul Clarke (Cocktail Cronicles) for Serious Eats, Chuck Taggart (Looka!), Jessica (сocktail virgin slut). Not bad! It is like great MxMo roundup :)

The Paradise Cocktail was invented by Harry Craddock and it is a pure classic. This cocktail has absolutely classic composition - gin as main alcohol, apricot brandy (actually is not a brandy, it is sweet fruit liqueur) as sweetener and orange juice as diluent.

This recipe was found on The Pocket Bar Book by Mickhael Jackson (this recipe is so similar to the IBA-version).

Paradise

45 ml gin
30 ml apricot brandy
30 ml fresh orange juice
Shake. Serve in cocktail glass and garnish with a thin orange wedge.

I use Gordons London Dry Gin (47%) (or Befeater London Dry Gin (47%)) and liqueur BOLS Apricot. The Paradise Cocktail is admirable drink. It has smooth and sweet fruit taste with light bitternes in aftertaste.

Extremely interesting results was obtained with apricot liqueur by Nannerl. This austrian liqueurs are very natural and has very organic taste. The Paradise Cocktail made with Nannerl Apricot Liqueur and Bombay Sapphire Gin has great sweet and fruit palate.

Also I prepare this cocktail with liqueur DK Apricot brandy. This liqueur has very artificial taste. Actually it is bad choice for this cocktail.

On my Favorite CocktailDB I found next recipe of the Paradise Cocktail. It seems that it is version from The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock.

Paradise

45 ml gin
20 ml apricot-brandy
20 ml fresh orange juice
1 dash fresh lemon juice
Shake. Cocktail glass.

This version is so similar the above. If you use good gin (like Bombay Sapphire), good liqueur (like BOLS) and fresh-squeezed orange juice from ripe, fresh fruit you obtain great cocktail with fresh and right taste.

This modern version of the Paradise Cocktail I found in The Craft of the Cocktail by Dale DeGroff.

Paradise (Dale`s DeGroff ver.)

60 ml gin
20 ml apricot-brandy
20 ml fresh orange juice
2 dash orange bitter
Shake. Cocktail glass. Garnish with a flamed orange peel.

This cocktail is very aromatic. It has so compose and piquant taste.

My first recipe of Yellow Daisy Cocktail was found in one of my favorite cocktail book - The Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg. The cocktail has simply and elegant composition - gin, vermouth and Grand Marnier.

The inventor of Yellow Daisy Cocktail, as Savoy Cocktail Book specified, is Richard William Clark aka Deadwood Dick - quintessential cowboy, Indian fighter, express guard for Black Hills gold shipments and literare hero.

Yellow Daisy (Anthony Hogg)

40 ml gin
20 ml vermouth dry
20 ml Grand Marnier
Stir. Cocktail glass.

Also I try another recipe of Yellow Daisy Cocktail which was found on Cocktail DB.

Yellow Daisy (Cocktail DB)

45 ml gin
15 ml vermourh dry
7 ml Grand Marnier
7 ml pastis
Stir. Cocktail glass, garnish with a cherry.

I use Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin (my best gin, undoubtedly), Cinzano Extra Dry vermouth, Grand Marnier and Pernod.

This cocktails are different. Both cocktails are strong, sweet and herbal. Both cocktails has admirable light sushine yellow color.

The Anthony Hogg`s version has strong and sweet taste with orange palate of Grand Marnier. The CocktailDB`s version has comples herbal flavor with strong anise palate.

Also I tested the old version of this cocktail from Savoy Cocktail Book:

Yellow Daisy (Savoy)

30 ml gin
30 ml vermouth dry
15 ml Grand Marnier
few drop absinthe (Pernod)
Shake. Cocktail glass.

Actually I use Pernod instead absinthe. This cocktail has strong, sweet and herbal taste too. The Yellow Daisy Cocktail is admirable drink for long winter evening.

Recipe of Piccadilly Cocktail I found in one of my favorite cocktail book - Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg (1979). This cocktail has classic composition and contain one of my favorite herbal liqueur - Pernod. The Pernod is strong anise-flavored liqueur from France. It is common substitute of absinthe.

Piccadilly

50 ml gin
25 ml vermouth dry
dash pastis
dash grenadine
Stir. Cocktail glass.

The Piccadilly Cocktail is admirable strong drink with so dry taste and light anise flavor. This cocktail is so similar to another british cocktail - the Gloom Raiser. One of version of this cocktail was discovered by me. It is so peculiar variation of Dry Martini. Another version of Gloom Raiser Cocktail I found on CocktailDB.

Gloom Raiser

45 ml gin
15 ml vermouth dry
7 ml pastis
7 ml grenadine
Stir and strain into cocktail glass.

For this cocktail I use homemade grenadine (cold process) and my new vermouth - CINZANO Extra Dry. As Michael Jackson recommend I squeeze aromatic oils from lemon peel over my Gloom Raiser. The result is perfect! The Gloom Raiser Cocktail in this proportions is amazing and awesome drink. It has so strong taste with bright anise flavor with sweet interesting palate.

This interesting rare cocktail was found in CocktailDB. The Orange Bloom Cocktail is classic combination of three classic cocktails ingredients - gin, vermouth and Cointreau.

Orange Bloom

45 ml gin
15 ml sweet vermouth
15 ml Cointreau
Stir and strain into cocktail glass. Add cherry.

The Orange Bloom Cocktail has beautiful gold-orange color and great strong and sweet taste with aromatic orange and herbal notes. It is admirable drink.

This awesome cocktail has strange name with mysterious etymology, great story and elegant old-school composition - main alcohol (gin), vermouth and Ferne-Branca as bitter. The story of Hanky Panky Cocktail related to Ada Coleman - famous head-barman of Savoy Hotel and actor Charles Hawtrey. You may read great post about this cocktail on the LUPEC-Boston, one of my favorite cocktail-blog.

I prepared Hanky-Panky Cocktail (recipe courtesy of John Gertsen).

Hanky Panky Cocktail

50 ml gin
20 ml sweet vermouth
8 ml Fernet-Branca
Stir. Cocktail glass, garnish with an orange peel.

Great evening cocktail with well-balanced taste - dryness and botaniс of gin, sweetenes and herbal vermouth, bitternes and compose of Fernet-Branca. Great composition for real connoisseur.

Orange Blossom Cocktail is one of the classiс cocktail of Prohibition. Simple combination of gin, fresh orange juice and whatever liqueur (as sweetener) is ideal for masking the taste of low-quality gin. This recipe of Orange Blossom Cocktail was found in The Essential Cocktail by Dale DeGroff:

Orange Blossom

30 ml London dry gin
10 ml Cointreau
30 ml fresh orange juice
Shake. Goblet glass, garnish with spiral orange peel.

Actually the taste of gin has principal note in this cocktail. This cocktail has strong and citrus taste.

I prepare this cocktail with orange-flavored gin for “superorange” taste.

My Orange Blossom

30 ml orange gin
10 ml Cointreau
30 ml fresh orange juice
Shake. Cocktail glass, garnish with spiral orange peel.

This cocktail has bright orange taste with strong gin notes.

Also I obtain great results with recipe from my favorite CocktailDB, with sugar as sweetener. This version is well-balanced, very smooth and refreshing drink.

One of Rose on my blog :) This interesting recipe is splendiferous [wtf???!!!] chance to use one of my fovorite liqueur - Parfait Amour.

English Rose

50 ml gin
20 ml dry vermouth
15 ml Parfait Amour
7.5 ml lemon juice
1 dash grenadine syrup
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain in to a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

This cocktail has so dry and eccentric taste. Real English Rose, I think!

This elegant cocktail was found on Esquire Drinks DB (D.Wondrich). Red Lion Cocktail consist of gin, Grand Marnier and two citrus juices - fine and intriguing composition.

Red Lion

30 ml gin (I use BOMBAY SAPPHIRE London Dry Gin)
30 ml Grand Marnier
15 ml fresh orange juice
15 ml fresh lemon juice
Shake. Strain into cocktail glass with sugar rim.

This cocktail has rich, smooth and sweet taste. It is great afterdinner drink. As for me, it is real symbol of luxury.