An easy gin and lime highball. Usually considered a summer drink, this refreshing lime concoction is a tart surprise when the winter weather settles in.
We found this recipe in Jerry Thomas's 1862 How to Mix Drinks or the Bon Vivant's Companion, in a recipe for a single serving. It called for Holland gin-or genever, as we know it today-and was probably...
The recipe comes from Chris McMillian, the fourth-generation bartender and fount of cocktail lore who presides over the bar at the Library Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans. He prefers to use sugar...
Here, the word "perfect" refers not to the quality of the classic cocktail (though we do love this version), but to the equal amounts of sweet and dry vermouth used to make it.
Like a Manhattan cocktail, the Scotch-based Rob Roy is usually made with sweet vermouth; but if can also be made dry (with dry vermouth) or perfect (with equal amounts of both).