Vodka Cocktails, page 2
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Sex on the Beach
Sex on the Beach is the 1980s at full volume: vodka, peach schnapps, orange and cranberry, and a name engineered so that ordering it was the joke. The best-supported account has a
Shaft
The Shaft is Canada’s iced-coffee ritual, and it arrives with a civic dispute attached. Vodka, coffee liqueur and Irish cream over cold espresso and ice, drunk through a straw as
Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall
The Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Wall has the longest name in the canon and the most complete crossword behind it. Slow is sloe gin. Comfortable is Southern Comfort. Screw
Spicy Fifty
The Spicy Fifty was created by Salvatore Calabrese in 2004 for the opening menu of his London bar FIFTY, which opened in February 2005 and gave the drink its name. Calabrese,
Tomatini
The Tomatini is the savoury martini rebuilt from the fruit bowl. Jimmy Barrat created it at La Petite Maison in Dubai in 2011 and carried it to the World Class bartending final in
Vietnamese Iced Coffee (Cocktail)
Cà Phê Sữa Đá is Vietnamese iced coffee, one of the most distinctive cold coffee drinks in the world, built on intensely brewed Robusta and sweetened condensed milk. It has been a
Vodka & Blood Orange Spritz
A spritz stripped back to two ingredients, which exposes how much of a normal spritz is carried by the bitter liqueur rather than by anything else. Take the Aperol out and put
Vodka & Mediterranean Tonic
A drink where the mixer is doing essentially all of the flavouring, and is therefore the only decision worth thinking about. Vodka is defined by what has been taken out of it, so
Vodka Collins
The Vodka Collins is the fourth passport in a family that has been reissuing them since Limmer’s Hotel. The formula never changes: spirit, lemon, sugar, soda, tall ice. Only the
Vodka Gimlet
The Vodka Gimlet is what happened when the Gimlet emigrated to mid-century America. Vodka was the coming spirit of the 1950s, country clubs preferred their drinks clean and cold,
Vodka Martini
The Vodka Martini is vodka and a very small measure of dry vermouth, stirred and served extremely cold. It started life in the 1950s bar books under the name Kangaroo, which was
Vodka Sour
The Vodka Sour is the sour template at its plainest bearing: spirit, lemon and sugar in the proportions the nineteenth-century guides codified, with the spirit contributing
Watermelon Martini
The Watermelon Martini is the fresh-fruit martini school’s summer graduation: the London style of the 1990s and 2000s that muddled real produce into vodka and called the result a
White Russian
The White Russian is the Black Russian’s creamier child, appearing in print by 1965 as the era’s dinner-party update of the Brussels original: vodka, coffee liqueur and a float of
Woo Woo
The Woo Woo is the 1980s stripped to essentials: vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice, three pours over ice with a name that is its own toast. It rode the same 1984 schnapps