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How to Make a London Calling Cocktail

Name: How to Make a London Calling Cocktail
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 ½ ounce dry gin; ½ ounce Fino sherry; ½ ounce simple syrup; ½ ounce fresh lemon juice; 2 dashes orange bitters; Grapefruit twist, for garnish

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Last updated: Feb 6, 2026 • 1 min read

A relative newcomer to the cocktail canon, the London Calling cocktail—a citrusy, sherry-forward riff on a gin sour—makes for a zesty, complex aperitif.

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What Is a London Calling?

The London Calling is a gin-based cocktail made with equal parts dry sherry, sugar syrup, and lemon juice. The recipe then doubles down on citrus notes with orange bitters and a grapefruit peel. Bartender Chris Jepson invented the fruity cocktail at Milk & Honey, a London cocktail bar, in 2002.

London Calling Recipe

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makes

1 cocktail

prep time

5 min

total time

5 min

Ingredients

1
Combine gin, sherry, simple syrup and bitters in a cocktail shaker over ice.
2
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
3
Strain into a chilled coupette or Martini glass. Garnish with grapefruit twist.

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