Ingredients

• 1 ounce gin
• 1 ounce Campari (Gran Glassico Bitter can also be used)
• 1 ounce sweet vermouth, such as Carpano
• Orange twist, for garnish

Preparation

Place a cocktail or Old Fashioned glass in the freezer to chill.

Combine the gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth in a cocktail shaker and fill it halfway with ice. Stir until the outside of the shaker is frosted. If you’re using an Old Fashioned glass, add ice cubes to it. Strain the drink into the chilled cocktail or Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with the orange twist.

Chow

The Corpse Reviver #2, tweaked by yours truly.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. gin (pref. citrusy, like Plymouth or Bluecoat)
• 1 oz. Lillet blanc
• 3/4 oz. lemon juice
• dash bitters

Preparation

Shake with ice, strain into a martini glass, serve with a lemon wheel.

Charles Pence

Ingredients

• 2 oz. gin
• 1/2 tbsp. simple syrup
• 1/2 oz. lemon juice
• champagne

Preparation

Mix the first three ingredients (or shake with ice), pour into champagne flute. Top with champagne.

Esquire

Ingredients

• 2 dashes absinthe
• 1 ounce dry vermouth
• 2 ounces gin
• 1 mint leaf

Preparation

Shake liquid ingredients well with ice and strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with mint leaf.

Rosie Schapp, New York Times

Ingredients

• 2 oz. gin
• 2 oz. grapefruit juice
• 1/2 oz. St. Germain
• 1 squeeze lime juice

Preparation

Shake, strain, garnish with a sage leaf.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 parts gin
• 3/4 part St. Germain
• 1/4 part simple syrup
• 3/4 part fresh lemon juice

Preparation

Shake all ingredients with ice, serve.

St. Germain

Ingredients

• 3 parts gin
• 1/2 part St. Germain
• dash bitters

Preparation

Stir in a shaker, pour into an ice-filled cocktail glass. Garnish w/ a twist (pref. grapefruit).

St. Germain

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 parts gin
• 3/4 part St. Germain
• splash Pernod / Absinthe
• 1/2 part lime juice

Preparation

Shake over ice, strain, serve in cocktail glass.

St. Germain, adapted via The Mark

Ingredients

• 2 parts gin
• 1 part Cointreau
• 1 part lemon juice

Preparation

Shake with ice, strain, serve in martini glass.

Ingredients

• 3 mint sprigs
• 2 oz gin
• 3/4 oz fresh lime juice
• 3/4 oz simple syrup
• 1 small dash bitters (optional)

Preparation

Bruise two sprigs of mint gently in a cocktail shaker. Add ingredients. Add ice. Shake. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with remaining mint leaf.

Toby Maloney, Chicago Tribune