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Sour · Shaken · Historical · complexity 2/5

Vie en Rose Cocktail

Vie en Rose Cocktail is a pink gin-and-kirsch sour colored with grenadine.

sweet · sour · red_fruit · stone_fruit · aperitif · formal

Served in Cocktail glass.

Variants (1)

Harry of Ciro's ABC of Mixing Cocktails by Harry of Ciro's (1923, p.85) — Harry of Ciro's 1923

0.5 glassgin base
1 portionlemon juice — Lemon Juicebase
0.5 glassKirschwasser modifier
0.5 glassGrenadine sweetener
  1. Shake well and strain.

This matters because it preserves another pink gin branch in the London 1923 hotel-bar layer, but with kirsch rather than cream or egg.

See also: Pink Rose Cocktail, Princess Mary Cocktail