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Saint-Florent Cocktail

3.7

(40)

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Christopher Testani

An easy-drinking aperitif made slightly more potent with the addition of gin.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    8 Servings

Ingredients

honey syrup

¼

cup clover honey

assembly

1½

cups gin

¾

cup fresh lime juice

½

cup Aperol or Cappelletti

Angostura bitters

Champagne or sparkling wine

8

lime wheels

Preparation

  1. honey syrup

    Step 1

    Combine honey and 2 Tbsp. hot water in a small jar; cover and shake to dissolve honey.

  2. assembly

    Step 2

    Combine 6 Tbsp. gin, 3 Tbsp. fresh lime juice, 2 Tbsp. Aperol, 1 Tbsp. honey syrup, and 2 dashes of Angostura bitters in a cocktail shaker; fill shaker with ice. Cover and shake until outside of shaker is frosty, about 30 seconds. Strain into 2 chilled coupe glasses. Top off each with Champagne and garnish with a lime wheel. Repeat three more times.

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  • Made these last night as the ingredients list played to a lot of my preferred flavors in cocktails, but the balance seemed off. The lime juice seemed to blow away the gin and the aperol. If I were to make again, I would reduce the lime juice and either up the aperol or the honey syrup. I could also see upping the gin in place of some of the lime juice if you wanted this to be more spirit forward.

    • kellen.holt

    • Seattle, WA

    • 1/1/2020