I am really sorry I didn’t get a picture of the finished drink, too dark but it’s gorgeous. I don’t like the gin I have and thought vodka and mastiha would be more to my taste so:
1.5 oz vodka
2 oz adjusted grapefruit juice (juiced one sweet pink grapefruit and one lime, mixed, then measured 2 oz of the mix)
1/2 oz each of the St. Germain, the Campari, and the Mastiha.
Shaken, poured what fit into a coupe and drank the rest from the shaker, it’s delicious and the dark pink with foam is really beautiful.
I’ve never heard of Mastiha. What kind of liquor is it? What’s the flavor like?
Mastika or mastiha is a liqueur seasoned with mastic, a resin with a slightly pine or cedar-like flavor gathered from the mastic tree […] It has a distinctive flavor, reminiscent of pine and herbs.
So like a retsina wine I guess? Sounds interesting.
It’s not like anything else, but kind of reminds me of vaguely minty cucumber in a way, not pine like Christmas trees. It’s too sweet on its own but really good and, well, not like anything else I have.
