Choke Me Softly

Name: Choke Me Softly
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 50 ml Gin; 1 twst Grapefruit Peel; 2 dash Fernet Branca; 50 ml Cynar; 1 tsp Lychee Liqueur, Soho Soho

Gin and Cynar in equal parts, stirred with two dashes of Fernet Branca and a teaspoon of Soho lychee liqueur, then served in a coupe with a grapefruit twist. Bitter and herbal with a faint floral sweetness from the lychee, created by Paulo Freitas, Brazil, in 2012.

Similar names: Simple Softly

Paulo Freitas of Brazil created the Choke Me Softly for the 2012 Diageo World Class finals. The starting point was the complicated nature of mother-in-law relationships, which the lychee reflects through a delicate but nuanced aroma, with sweetness and bitterness kept in balance.

Method

Stirred

Glass

coupe

Difficulty

Medium

Flavor Profile

Bitter

Citrus

Dry

Herbal