Leap Year

A gin cocktail with the structure of a Martinez tilted toward orange and citrus: London dry gin lengthened by sweet vermouth and Grand Marnier, brightened with a quarter ounce of lemon and an expressed lemon twist. Harry Craddock devised it at the Savoy's American Bar for the leap-year revelries of February 29, 1928, and recorded in his 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book that it was "responsible for more proposals than any other cocktail that has ever been mixed."

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Ingredients

  • 2 ozGin
  • 0.5 ozGrand Marnier
  • 0.5 ozSweet Vermouth
  • 0.25 ozLemon Juice

Garnish: Lemon Peel

Preparation

Shaken · Coupe · None

  1. 1.

    add

    Combine gin, Grand Marnier, sweet vermouth, and lemon juice in a shaker.

  2. 2.

    shake

    Add ice and shake well until chilled.

  3. 3.

    strain

    Fine strain into a chilled coupe.

  4. 4.

    express

    Express a lemon twist over the surface.

  5. 5.

    garnish

    Drop the lemon twist in as garnish.

Flavor Profile

citrus
46%
herbal
43%
floral
28%
spiced
27%
fruity
23%
dilution
19%
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