Claret Lemonade

4 oz Red wine
1 oz Simple syrup
1⁄2 oz Lemon juice
1 sli Lemon (for garnish)
2 Raspberry (a couple for garnish, optional)
1 spg Mint (for garnish, optional)
Instructions

Combine liquid ingredients. Pour back and forth between two halves of a cocktail shaker. Strain into a goblet over ice and garnish.

Notes

Historically garnish was determined by season, so add raspberries to the mint sprig in spring.

History

Mentions Jerry Thomson's How to Mix Drinks (1862), but as context rather than as the original recipe.

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Reference

DeGroff, The Essential Cocktail, p. 196.

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