Love the Enzoni. Probably one of my favorite lesser known cocktails.
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Love a pink drink! This looks very good. Nicely presented too.
This is such a great drink. Tho I usually don't add sugar syrup to them when I make them, but I also usually prefer cocktails on the more bitter side.
Side note: prepare to have to deep clean your Hawthorne strainer....
I took the recipe from Diffords website, which uses sugar syrup, but I think it depends a lot on the grapes used. I might try it again with a couple more grapes and no/less syrup!
And yes, the mashed grapes do a bit of a mess!
My wife loves the riff I make which I call a benzoni (lol)... Replace the gin with bourbon, like the negroni/boulevardier riff. It's tasty but it definitely doesn't need any sugar syrup, as bourbon can be quite sweet on its own.
Oh and I only use green grapes. I think the original called for red? Green tend to have a nice tartness that I love.
2 questions:
- is this quantity for 1 or 2 drinks ?
- what do you do exactly with the 5 grapes ? You toss them in the shaker as is ?
Quantity is for 1 drink. Grapes should be muddled in the shaker before shaking, I forgot to mention it! I'll edit the post.
I think you need to muddle the grapes in the shaker to get most of the juice.
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