London Calling
A sharp, elegant sour of gin, dry sherry and citrus: balanced, fresh and faintly saline on the finish.
Ingredients
- London Dry gin, navy strength, if you like, for extra power45 ml
- Fino sherry, dry and nutty15 ml
- Lemon juice, freshly squeezed15 ml
- Simple syrup (1 part Sugar, 1 part Water)15 ml
- Orange bitters2 dashes
Method
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
- Add the gin, fino sherry, lemon juice, syrup and orange bitters.
- Shake hard for 10–15 seconds, until the shaker is ice-cold and frosted.
- Double-strain through a Hawthorne and a fine strainer into a chilled coupe.
- Serve at once, garnished with an expressed citrus peel if you have one to hand.
Chris Jepson
About this drink
London Calling was created by Chris Jepson in London in 2002 and has since become a modern classic in cocktail bars around the world. The idea was to give the gin sour a dry, nutty twist by letting fino sherry play alongside lemon and bitters. The result is both fresh and complex: a tribute to London's cocktail scene at the turn of the millennium.
