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Highball · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 2/5

Rhine Wine Lemonade

Sheridan's Rhine Wine Lemonade lengthens lemon and sugar directly with Rhine wine.

sweet · sour · citrus · dry · refreshing

Served in Goblet. Ice: Shaved ice.

Family

Variants (6)

The Complete Buffet Manual or How to Mix Fancy Drinks by J. E. Sheridan (1901, p.46)

1 lemonlemon juice — juice of a lemonacid
2 teaspoonfulssugar — powdered sugarbase
ice — shaved iceother
Rhine wine — Used to fill up.other
  1. Put the sugar, lemon juice, and a little shaved ice in a goblet.
  2. Fill up with Rhine wine, dress with fruit in season, and serve.

Garnish: Fruit in season.

Ice: Shaved ice

This is a useful wine-service checkpoint because it keeps Rhine wine active in the lemonade field rather than only in cups or plain pours.

The drink is built directly in the goblet rather than shaken.

The Complete Buffet Guide by V. B. Lewis (1903, p.48) — V. B. Lewis 1903

0.5 wholeLemon juice (fresh) — juice of half a lemonacid
2 teaspoonsugar — powdered sugarbase
ice — little shaved iceother
Rhine wine — Fill up.other
  1. Add the sugar, lemon juice, and a little shaved ice to a goblet.
  2. Fill up with Rhine wine, dress with fruit in season, and serve.

Garnish: Fruit

Ice: Little shaved ice

Nose
White wine and lemon produce a fresher, more vinous profile than plain lemonade.
Palate
This is a clear crossover between temperance lemonade structure and light wine highball logic.
Finish
The finish is cool, wine-led, and citric.
Summary
A Rhine-wine lemonade from the overlap between light wine service and the lemonade family.

The Buffet Blue Book by John H. Considine (1912, p.47)

1 orangeorange juice — Juice of one orange.acid
1 tablespoonfulsugar base
1 sliceOrange garnish
0.5 glassice other
Rhine wine — Fill up.other
  1. Build the sugar, orange juice, and ice in a large bar glass.
  2. Fill up with Rhine wine, stir well, add a slice of orange, and serve with straws.

Garnish: Slice of orange

Ice: Ice

Bartenders' Guide: How to Mix Drinks by Wehman Bros. (1912, p.40)

0.5 lemonlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
1 tablespoonsugar — Sugarbase
fruit — Fruit in seasongarnish
0.33 glassice — Iceother
Rhine wine — Fill up the glass.other
  1. Combine the sugar, lemon juice, and ice, fill up with Rhine wine, dress with fruit, and serve.

Ice: Ice

Bartenders' Manual by Bartenders Association of America (1913, p.39)

0.5 lemonlemon juice — Lemon juiceacid
1 tablespoonsugar — Sugarbase
ice — Iceother
Rhine wine — Fill up with Rhine wine.other
  1. Build in a goblet and dress with fruit in season.

Garnish: Fruit in season

Ice: Ice

Cocktails by Pedro Chicote (1928, p.291) — Rin

1 lemonlemon juice — jugo de un limonacid
ice — pedacitos de hielo muy picadobase
Filtered water — agua natural filtradadilution
Seasonal fruit — frutas del tiempo muy picadagarnish
1 small glassRhine wine — copita de vino del Rinother
1 tablespoonsugar — cucharada grande de azucar en polvosweetener
  1. Build in a large glass and serve with straws.

Garnish: Seasonal fruit

Ice: Ice

This matters because it gives Chicote a wine-and-lemon refreshment branch rather than only spirit-based highballs.

See also: Wine Lemonade, Rhine Wine Julep