Players Cup

Range * San FranciscoThe word cocktail encompasses all kinds of mixed drinks, including fixes, crustas, cobblers, flips, juleps and punches. Cups were a category of fancy drinks made with wine or spirits and garnished lavishly with fruit.Plus: Ultimate Cocktail Guide

Yield:
1 drink

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ice

  • 2 ounces vodka

  • 1 ounce Grand Marnier

  • 1 ounce fresh lime juice

  • 2 dashes of Angostura Bitters

  • 4 raspberries

  • 4 to 5 mint leaves, plus 1 mint sprig

  • 3 thin cucumber wheels

  • 1 ounce chilled ginger ale

Directions

  1. In a cocktail shaker, combine all of the ingredients except the mint sprig, 1 cucumber wheel and the ginger ale and shake well. Pour into a pilsner glass, stir in the ginger ale and garnish with the mint sprig and cucumber wheel.

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