Drink · 4 min · Amounts not specified
Vesper
Gin, vodka and Lillet, shaken. Purists object to shaking a Martini-shaped drink; this one is meant to be cloudy and very cold.
The sheet · 1 coupe · 4 min
mediumWhy tonight. Gin, vodka and Lillet, shaken. Purists object to shaking a Martini-shaped drink; this one is meant to be cloudy and very cold.
What it needs
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- gin
- vodka
- lillet
Method
- 3 oz gin, 1 oz vodka, ½ oz Lillet. Shake — yes, shake, that was the whole point of the order.
- Strain up, thin strip of lemon peel expressed over it.
- Kina Lillet is gone and the modern bottle is far less bitter, so a dash of quinine bitters gets it closer to what the drink used to be.
- It is enormous. Serve it small and cold and do not build a second one.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- gin
- Botanicals over a neutral base, and every bottle draws its own map — juniper-forward gin makes a bracing drink, a softer modern one makes a floral one.
- vodka
- Deliberately quiet — it carries other flavors and dilutes without arguing.
- lillet
- Fortified and aromatized wine, lightly bitter and citrusy, and it is perishable like vermouth.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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