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

Italian Wine Lemonade

Sheridan's Italian Wine Lemonade lengthens sherry, claret, or port with lemon and water.

sweet · sour · citrus · dry · refreshing

Served in Large bar glass. Ice: Shaved ice.

Variants (3)

The Complete Buffet Manual or How to Mix Fancy Drinks by J. E. Sheridan (1901, p.48)

4.5 dasheslemon juice — Sheridan gives 4 or 5 dashes.acid
2 teaspoonfulssugar — powdered sugarbase
water — Used to fill up.dilution
1 wine glasssherry — sherry, claret, or Port winemodifier
0.5 glassice — shaved iceother
  1. Put the ingredients over shaved ice in a large bar glass.
  2. Fill with water, stir well, dress with fruits, and serve with a straw.

Garnish: Fruit.

Ice: Shaved ice

This is useful because Sheridan keeps multiple fortified-wine branches active inside the lemonade field.

The service remains a dressed long drink despite the wine base.

Jack's Manual by J. A. Grohusko (1910, p.59)

1 lemonlemon juice acid
2 teaspoonfulssugar — fine sugarbase
water — Little water to dissolve sugar, then fill with water.dilution
fruit — seasonal fruitgarnish
1 portionMarsala wine — Source gives 100% Marsala wine.modifier
0.5 glassice — cracked iceother
4 dashesRaspberry syrup sweetener
  1. Build the sugar dissolved in a little water, raspberry syrup, lemon juice, cracked ice, and Marsala wine in a glass.
  2. Fill with water, stir, trim with fruits in season, and serve with straws.

Garnish: Seasonal fruit

Ice: Cracked ice

The Buffet Blue Book by John H. Considine (1912, p.38)

0.5 lemonlemon juice — Juice of half a lemon.acid
1 jiggergin base
1 tablespoonfulsugar base
1 dashorange bitters bitter
1 dashseltzer — Used with sugar at the start and then to fill up.dilution
pineapple — Dress with pineapple.garnish
2 dashessherry — sherry winemodifier
2 dashesginger — OCR-soft; preserved from source line.other
0.67 large bar glassice — Two-thirds full.other
3 dashesRaspberry syrup sweetener
  1. Build the sugar, dash of seltzer, ice, raspberry syrup, ginger, sherry wine, orange bitters, lemon juice, and gin in a large bar glass.
  2. Fill up with seltzer, stir well, dress with pineapple, and serve with straws.

Garnish: Pineapple

Ice: Ice

A small ginger line is present in the OCR and preserved conservatively.

See also: Cordial Lemonade, Rhine Wine Lemonade

Sheridan explicitly allows sherry, claret, or port.