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Lillet rocks
Lillet over ice with a thick slice of orange. Low, floral and the correct thing to drink before dinner rather than after.
The sheet · 1 wine glass · 1 min
easyWhy tonight. Lillet over ice with a thick slice of orange. Low, floral and the correct thing to drink before dinner rather than after.
What it needs
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- lillet
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: orange.
Method
- 3 oz Lillet blanc over plenty of ice in a wine glass, with a wide strip of orange peel.
- It is wine, so it oxidizes — fridge, and finished inside a month. Most people's Lillet is stale and they blame the drink.
- Around seventeen percent, which makes it a genuine aperitif rather than a small cocktail.
- Cucumber instead of orange in the summer, and it becomes a different and better drink.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- lillet
- Fortified and aromatized wine, lightly bitter and citrusy, and it is perishable like vermouth.
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