Classic cocktail

Lemon Drop

A bright vodka sour served in a sugar-rimmed coupe. Cointreau, lemon, and simple syrup.

Glass
Coupe
Method
Shake
Ingredients
5

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Vodka
  • ½ oz Cointreau
  • ¾ oz Fresh Lemon Juice
  • ½ oz Simple Syrup
  • Sugar

Garnish: Sugar rim; lemon twist

How to make it

  1. Rim a chilled coupe with sugar.
  2. Shake the remaining ingredients with ice and strain into the glass.
  3. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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