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Gin Cocktails

Gin is the great mixer among spirits: its juniper-and-citrus backbone stands up in stirred, bitter drinks (Negroni, Martinez), sings in sours (Gimlet, Bee’s Knees, White Lady) and stretches into effortless highballs (Gin and Tonic, Tom Collins).

80guided recipesml + ozprecise specs

A single London dry bottle makes every drink on this page. From there, Old Tom sweetens the vintage recipes and a citrus-forward contemporary gin transforms the G&T.

Gin & Tonic in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Gin & Tonic

MediumBuilt in glassHighball

The gin and tonic is the easiest great cocktail there is: two ingredients, one glass, no tools. The whole trick is lots of ice and a gentle stir — that keeps it cold and fizzy instead of watery and flat.

Tom Collins in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Tom Collins

MediumShakenSour

The Tom Collins is a shaken gin lemonade: gin, lemon and sugar lengthened with soda water over ice. It is tall, fizzy and dangerously easy to drink on a warm evening.

Negroni in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Negroni

StrongStirredSpirit-forward

Equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, stirred over ice with an orange twist. Bitter, ruby-red and perfectly balanced — the gateway to every amaro that follows.

Dry Martini in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Dry Martini

StrongShakenHighball

Cold gin, a whisper of dry vermouth and a lemon twist. The most elemental cocktail there is — the quality of the gin is the whole drink.

Martinez in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Martinez

StrongShakenHighball

The Martini’s sweeter ancestor: gin and sweet vermouth with a touch of maraschino and bitters. Richer and more aromatic than its famous descendant.

Vesper in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a small listening bar with acoustic walnut, dark felt and a dim red indicator in the distance.

Vesper

StrongShakenHighball

Bond’s Martini: gin and vodka stiffened with a little blanc vermouth, shaken hard and served with a lemon twist. Bracing and bone-dry.

Bijou in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Bijou

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

“Jewel” in French — equal parts gin, green Chartreuse and sweet vermouth, named for the gem colors of its ingredients. Herbal, bold and beautiful.

Hanky Panky in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Hanky Panky

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A Martini with a bitter secret: gin and sweet vermouth lifted by a small pour of Fernet. Created by Ada Coleman at the Savoy.

Bronx in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Bronx

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A Perfect Martini with a splash of orange juice — gin, both vermouths and fresh orange. A forgotten member of the pre-Prohibition royalty.

Gimlet in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Gimlet

StrongShakenSour

Gin and lime, sweetened just enough, shaken ice-cold. Two ingredients, endlessly refreshing — the sailor’s antidote to scurvy grew up well.

Aviation in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Aviation

StrongShakenSour

Gin, maraschino, a whisper of crème de violette and lemon — a pale sky-blue classic from the golden age of flight. Floral and tart.

Last Word in a clear shallow coupe styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Last Word

StrongShakenSour

Four equal parts — gin, green Chartreuse, maraschino and lime. A Prohibition-era puzzle that shouldn’t work but absolutely does.

Bee’s Knees in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Bee’s Knees

StrongShakenSour

Gin, lemon and honey — a Prohibition sour that used honey to hide rough bathtub gin, and stayed on the menu because it’s just delicious.

Clover Club in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Clover Club

StrongShakenSour

A pre-Prohibition gin sour with raspberry and egg white — pink, frothy and far more serious than it looks.

Corpse Reviver #2 in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Corpse Reviver #2

StrongShakenSour

The famous morning-after cure: equal parts gin, orange liqueur, blanc vermouth and lemon, with an absinthe rinse. Bright, dry and reviving.

Southside in a clear shallow coupe styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Southside

StrongShakenSour

A gin sour with a garden in it: gin, lime, sugar and plenty of mint, shaken hard and served up. Like a mojito that put on a suit.

Gin Rickey in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Gin Rickey

MediumBuilt in glassHighball

Gin, fresh lime and soda — no sugar at all. Crisp, dry and one of the most refreshing long drinks ever built.

Gin Fizz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Gin Fizz

MediumShakenSour

A gin sour lengthened with soda: shaken cold, then topped with bubbles for a tall, foamy, thirst-quenching classic.

French 75 in a slender champagne flute styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

French 75

MediumShakenSparkling

Gin and lemon shaken cold, then topped with champagne — named for a field gun because it hits hard. Elegant, celebratory and crisp.

White Lady in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

White Lady

StrongShakenSour

Gin, orange liqueur and lemon, shaken up to a pale, elegant sour. A Harry Craddock classic from the Savoy.

Pegu Club in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Pegu Club

StrongShakenSour

Gin, orange liqueur and lime with two kinds of bitters — a colonial Burmese club classic, dry and aromatic.

Jasmine in a clear shallow coupe styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Jasmine

StrongShakenSour

A grapefruity gin sour with a bitter Campari edge — pale pink and quietly brilliant.

Sloe Gin Fizz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Sloe Gin Fizz

LightShakenSour

Ruby sloe gin, lemon and sugar shaken cold and topped with soda — tart, fruity and gently fizzy.

Gin-Gin Mule in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Gin-Gin Mule

MediumMuddledMuddled

Audrey Saunders’ modern classic: a mojito-mule hybrid — gin and mint muddled with lime and sugar, lengthened with ginger beer.

Saturn in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Saturn

StrongShakenSour

A tropical gin sour with passion fruit and almondy orgeat — a mid-century tiki oddity that won a world championship.

Suffering Bastard in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a Belle Époque salon bar with faded burgundy velvet, dark marble and aged brass.

Suffering Bastard

MediumBuilt in glassHighball

A Cairo hangover cure from WWII: gin and brandy with lime and bitters, lengthened with spicy ginger beer.

Gin Sour in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Gin Sour

StrongShakenSour

Every sour on this site runs on the same arithmetic: 60 ml of spirit, 22 of lemon, 15 of syrup. Learn it here, where gin leaves nothing to hide behind, and you can rebuild half the classic canon from memory.

Bramble in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Bramble

StrongShakenTropical

Dick Bradsell’s London classic: a gin sour over crushed ice with a bleed of blackberry liqueur through it. Tart, fruity and gorgeous.

Singapore Sling in a curved hurricane glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Singapore Sling

MediumShakenSour

The Raffles Hotel’s pink tropical sling: gin with cherry, herbal liqueurs, pineapple and lime. Complex, fruity and iconic.

Fitzgerald in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Fitzgerald

StrongShakenSour

A Gin Sour with two dashes of Angostura, which sounds like nothing and changes everything. The bitters give the lemon a spiced backbone and stop the gin's botanicals reading as perfume. Dale DeGroff has claimed the drink, from his years behind the bar at the Rainbow Room.

Army & Navy in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Army & Navy

StrongShakenSour

Orgeat is the whole argument here: swapping it for the simple syrup in a Gin Sour buys almond, a faint milkiness and a rounder body without making the drink noticeably sweeter.

Alaska in a clear shallow coupe styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Alaska

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Nothing about this suggests the Arctic. Yellow Chartreuse against a dry London gin with a dash of orange bitters, gold in the glass and honeyed on the palate, the monastery's hundred-odd botanicals arguing quietly underneath.

Casino in a clear shallow coupe styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Casino

StrongShakenSour

Cousin to the Aviation, minus the violet and with the maraschino pulled back to a bar spoon or two. What's left is a dry gin sour where the cherry sits underneath the drink rather than on top of it. Orange bitters do the rest.

Gin Buck in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Gin Buck

MediumBuilt in glassHighball

Ginger ale does more here than dilute. Lemon juice sharpens it, gin sends juniper up through the bubbles, and the result comes out drier than the sweet highball it looks like on paper.

Gin & It in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Gin & It

StrongShakenHighball

The pre-ice Martini: just gin and sweet (“Italian”) vermouth, served up. Rich and old-fashioned in the best way.

Monkey Gland in a clear shallow coupe styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Monkey Gland

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A 1920s Paris oddity: gin and orange juice with grenadine and a touch of absinthe. Fruity, dry and strange in the best way.

Income Tax in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Income Tax

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Two dashes of Angostura separate this from a Bronx, and they do more work than that suggests. Spice pulls the orange juice back from breakfast and gives the pair of vermouths something to hold onto.

Satan's Whiskers in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Satan's Whiskers

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Five ingredients in equal measure, which sounds like a mess and isn't. Gin, both vermouths, orange juice and Grand Marnier land somewhere between a Bronx and marmalade. Orange bitters are what keep it from sliding into fruit punch.

Pink Lady in a clear shallow coupe styled in a Belle Époque salon bar with faded burgundy velvet, dark marble and aged brass.

Pink Lady

StrongShakenSour

A frothy pre-Prohibition charmer: gin and applejack with lemon and grenadine, shaken with egg white to a rosy foam.

Gin Daisy in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Gin Daisy

StrongShakenSour

Daisies are a family rather than a single recipe: spirit, citrus, a sweetener, poured over ice. This one runs gin against lemon with grenadine doing most of the sweetening and a small pour of triple sec sharpening the edges.

Bennett in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Bennett

StrongShakenSour

Take a fresh-lime Gimlet, add two dashes of Angostura, and the drink picks up a warm, faintly clove-ish back end that plain gin and lime never had.

Ramos Gin Fizz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Ramos Gin Fizz

MediumShakenCreamy

New Orleans’ famous cloud in a glass: gin, citrus, cream and egg white shaken to a pillow and lengthened with soda. Worth the long shake.

Silver Fizz in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Silver Fizz

MediumShakenSour

Egg white turns a plain Gin Fizz into this one, and it changes more than the color. Texture goes from crisp to soft, the lemon lands rounder, and the soda has something to push up against.

Blue Moon in a clear shallow coupe styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Blue Moon

StrongShakenSour

A floral pre-Prohibition gin sour coloured with crème de violette — pale lavender, delicate and perfumed.

Tuxedo in a sharp V-shaped martini glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Tuxedo

StrongShakenHighball

Half gin, half dry vermouth, plus a bar spoon of maraschino and about two milliliters of absinthe. At that ratio the vermouth isn't seasoning, it's half the drink, so a bottle that's been open since spring will show up in the glass immediately.

Fine and Dandy in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Fine and Dandy

StrongShakenSour

Two parts gin to one each of orange liqueur and lemon is a White Lady. What makes this one its own drink is the dash of Angostura, which runs a line of clove and gentian under the citrus and keeps the sweetness honest.

Journalist in a clear shallow coupe styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Journalist

StrongShakenSour

Six ingredients, and four of them measured in single teaspoons. Underneath the fussiness sits a Martini carrying both vermouths at once, with a splash of lemon and a teaspoon of orange liqueur to round the edges.

Cardinale in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a modern apothecary-style bar with charcoal slate, smoked glass and unlabeled botanical jars in blur.

Cardinale

StrongStirredSpirit-forward

A drier, sharper Negroni: gin and Campari with dry vermouth instead of sweet. Crisp, bitter and bracing.

Gin and Sin in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Gin and Sin

StrongShakenSour

Grenadine decides this drink. Corn-syrup grenadine turns it into candy, while real pomegranate syrup keeps it tart and gives it that dusty pink color.

Leap Year in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Leap Year

StrongShakenSour

Harry Craddock mixed this for the leap-year party at the Savoy in 1928: gin, Grand Marnier and sweet vermouth with a squeeze of lemon.

Maiden's Prayer in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Maiden's Prayer

StrongShakenSour

Equal parts gin and triple sec is a great deal of orange liqueur, and it shows. Sweeter and softer than a White Lady, with the juice pulling it further toward brunch than cocktail hour. Use a dry gin or it collapses.

Royal Hawaiian in a clear shallow coupe styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Royal Hawaiian

MediumShakenSour

Pineapple juice and almond syrup would drown most spirits, but juniper cuts straight through both. Shake it hard and the pineapple throws a fine white foam that sits on top without any egg white involved. Sweet, though it never tips into fruit punch.

Pink Gin in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Pink Gin

StrongStirredSpirit-forward

A Royal Navy classic in its austere entirety: good gin and a few dashes of Angostura, stirred and sipped neat. Bone-dry and aromatic.

Obituary in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Obituary

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A New Orleans Dry Martini with a lethal edge: gin and dry vermouth laced with absinthe. Bracing and not for beginners.

Water Lily in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Water Lily

StrongShakenSour

A modern equal-parts beauty: gin, orange liqueur, crème de violette and lemon. Pale purple, floral and citrus-bright.

Seventh Heaven in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Seventh Heaven

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Maraschino and grapefruit pull in opposite directions, one sweet and nutty, the other bitter, with 60 ml of gin holding the middle. It comes out drier than the ingredient list suggests, and shorter than you expect.

Racquet Club in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Racquet Club

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Orange bitters over equal parts gin and dry vermouth. Half the glass is wine, which makes it gentler and much more fragrant than a modern Martini. Serve it small and very cold.

Wembley in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet drawing-room bar with tobacco linen, walnut and one worn leather chair edge.

Wembley

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Apple brandy in a supporting role: 8 ml of it against 45 of gin and 22 of dry vermouth, enough to put an orchard note behind a very dry drink without making it taste of fruit.

The Business in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

The Business

StrongShakenSour

A three-ingredient modern classic from London: gin, lime and honey shaken cold. Clean, bright and quietly perfect.

Ford Cocktail in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Ford Cocktail

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Half of this is dry vermouth, which puts it nearer a turn-of-the-century Martini than a modern one. Benedictine adds honey and dried herb at the edges, and the whole thing lands lower and softer than the gin count suggests.

Maiden's Blush in a clear shallow coupe styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Maiden's Blush

StrongShakenSour

Pink comes from 8 ml of grenadine and nothing else, so this reads far sweeter than it drinks. Underneath the color sits a gin sour with a short measure of orange liqueur, lemon-forward and dry at the finish.

Gin Swizzle in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Gin Swizzle

StrongBuilt in glassTropical

Built in the glass rather than shaken: gin, lime and sugar over crushed ice, churned with a stick until the outside of the glass frosts white. Angostura goes on last and works its way down, so the first sips are spiced and the final ones are clean.

Gin Crusta in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Gin Crusta

StrongShakenSour

Sugar on half the rim and a long coil of lemon peel lining the glass is what makes a crusta, and the liquid inside is almost secondary. Gin, lemon, a little orange liqueur and a bar spoon of maraschino, sharper than the sugared rim leads you to expect.

Dempsey in a clear shallow coupe styled in a small French café bar with aged mirror, zinc counter and cream-painted wood.

Dempsey

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Half gin, half apple brandy, with neither one in charge. Grenadine pulls the color toward rose and rounds the corners, while two dashes of absinthe reach your nose well before anything else does. Drier than the color suggests.

Contessa in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Contessa

StrongStirredSpirit-forward

A paler, softer Negroni: gin and Campari with blanc vermouth in place of sweet. Bitter and floral, with a lighter touch.

Gin Fix in a heavy low rocks glass styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Gin Fix

StrongStirredTropical

Four milliliters of maraschino sounds like a rounding error. It isn't. That teaspoon is what separates a Fix from a plain gin sour, laying a dry almond-and-cherry note under the lemon without ever tasting of cherry syrup.

Abbey in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Abbey

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Orange juice in a gin-and-vermouth drink usually flattens the botanicals. At 22 ml against 45 of gin it does the opposite, brightening the blanc vermouth while a couple of dashes of orange bitters keep the fruit from going soft.

Gin Cooler in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a cool Art Deco hotel bar with smoky teal fluting, pale gray marble and one asymmetric opal sconce.

Gin Cooler

LightBuilt in glassHighball

Lighter than a Tom Collins by design. Same gin, lemon and sugar, but only 8 ml of syrup and a shorter pour of soda, which leaves it dry and sharply citrusy rather than lemonade-sweet.

Hoffman House in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Hoffman House

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A Martini carrying orange bitters and more vermouth than the modern habit allows. Eight parts gin to three of dry vermouth, with the bitters supplying a warm citrus-peel edge that a lemon twist alone can't reach.

Remsen Cooler in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Remsen Cooler

MediumBuilt in glassHighball

Remsen Coolers began as a Scotch drink, by most tellings, and gin took over later. Three ingredients, one of them soda water, which leaves nowhere for a dull gin to hide.

Gin Cobbler in a tall straight-sided highball glass styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Gin Cobbler

StrongStirredTropical

Sherry got there first and the template barely changed: sugar, citrus, a mountain of crushed ice. Gin makes it drier and more aromatic than the original, the juniper coming up cold through the orange.

Third Degree in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Third Degree

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Absinthe is the whole idea here, and it is also the thing most people get wrong. A barspoon turns a wet Martini aromatic and faintly bitter. A free pour turns it into licorice with gin in it.

Blue Train in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Blue Train

StrongShakenSour

Eight milliliters of blue curaçao does the work of a food dye here, set against 15 of real triple sec. So it tastes like a dry gin sour with a lemon backbone and looks like a swimming pool. Buy the curaçao that actually tastes of orange.

Palm Beach in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Palm Beach

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Sweet vermouth shows up here in a quantity you could mistake for a rinse, 8 ml against 45 of gin. It still does the work. Without it the grapefruit sits hard and sour over the juniper; with it the drink turns dry rather than sharp.

Wallick in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Wallick

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Fifty-fifty gin and dry vermouth with a barspoon of triple sec on top, which buys you orange aroma without any juice and a rounder Martini that still finishes dry.

Yale in a clear shallow coupe styled in a glasshouse café bar with pale stone, fern shadows and lightly weathered brass.

Yale

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Dry Martini proportions, then just enough blue curaçao to shift the color without shifting the flavor. What comes out is not blue but a pale slate-lavender, with orange oil and Angostura sitting behind the juniper.

White Rose in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

White Rose

StrongShakenSour

A frothy Jazz-Age charmer: gin with maraschino, orange and lime, shaken with egg white to a soft, pale foam.

Broadway Smile in a clear shallow coupe styled in a quiet old hotel bar with sage leather, dark oak and one shaded brass lamp.

Broadway Smile

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

Sloe gin brings the sugar and the dark fruit, Campari brings the bite, and orange liqueur sits between them keeping the peace. Ruby to the point of opacity, and a good deal more bitter than the name lets on.

Rose in a clear shallow coupe styled in a coastal brasserie bar with weathered blue-gray paneling, zinc counter and hazy sea light.

Rose

StrongShakenSpirit-forward

A delicate French aperitif built on dry vermouth, tinted rose with a little cherry liqueur and grenadine. Low-proof and pretty.

Corpse Reviver Bleu in a clear shallow coupe styled in a restrained botanical bar with dark green painted wood, ribbed glass and a few out-of-focus leaves.

Corpse Reviver Bleu

StrongShakenSour

The famous morning-after cure turned electric blue: blue curaçao stands in for the orange liqueur, with gin, blanc vermouth, lemon and an absinthe rinse.

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