Gin, shaken
French 75
Barline 1h,1,h,3,Rl
The code is the shorthand off my printed menu; the Key tab decodes every letter.
- 1 1/2 oz Gin
- 1 oz Lemon juice
- 1/2 oz Simple syrup
- 3 oz Champagne
Shake hard with ice, then strain.
Rocks, iced, lemon twist.
Taste
An ounce and a half of gin against a full ounce of lemon, then a half ounce of simple and three ounces of Champagne. Shaken, then the wine. Rocks with ice and a lemon twist. The lemon stays loud over the bubbles; the cube melts into it.
History
The name is the French 75-millimetre field gun of the First World War. The first drink so called, reported by O. O. McIntyre in the Washington Herald in 1915, is gin, applejack, grenadine, and lemon; Robert Vermeire, in 1922, credits Henry Tépé of Henry's Bar in Paris. The gin, lemon, sugar, and Champagne formula first prints in Judge Jr's 1927 Here's How, in a tall glass: if you use club soda, you have a Tom Collins. Harry Craddock repeats it in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book, poured over cracked ice. The flute is later. The gin and the ice survive here; a full ounce of lemon and three of Champagne go into a rocks glass with a lemon twist.
Same shape, other bottles
The Sparkling family, with the bottle that changed.
This is one drink on my home bar's menu. Tick the bottles you own and the menu lists which of all 185 drinks they pour, or read the index of every drink.