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Sabot

Aperitivo/aperitif · Champagne · Sours (citrus)

4.7 294 ratings

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Gin
3/4 oz Triple sec
3/4 oz Lemon juice
1/3 oz Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1)
1/2 oz Egg white (pasteurised)
3/4 oz Brut sparkling wine

How to make

Serve in a coupe glass

Prepare

  1. 1 Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
  2. 2 Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.

Method

  1. 3 SHAKE first 5 ingredients with ice and strain back into shaker.
  2. 4 DRY SHAKE (without ice) to emulsify.
  3. 5 FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
  4. 6 TOP with sparkling wine.

Garnish

  1. 7 EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Flavour profile

16.2% alc./vol. · 1.7 standard drinks · 209 calories

History

The Sabot is a White Lady topped with a splash of fizz. After experiencing the Sabot's firepower, a mere White Lady may seem inadequate.

Rollo Duckworth introduced this champagne cocktail, which, in his words, "has a cavalry flavour to it." In the 1980s, Rollo was serving in the Royal Hussars in Germany, a time when the regiment was equipped with Chieftain tanks. He explains that "our fastest and very destructive tank round (bullet) was called a sabot. How a White Lady morphed into this is not known, though bizarrely I think my father was involved. It just made sense to share the name of our most powerful round with this cocktail."

Also known as Champagne White Lady