Highballs and long drinks · Vodka
Deep red, very cold and pleasantly tart, this two-ingredient highball owes its whole character to cranberry. A fresh lime wedge squeezed in at the end sharpens it and keeps the juice from tasting flat.
1½ oz
vodkae.g. Absolut · Smirnoff · Grey Goose · Ketel One · Belvedere
4 oz
cranberry juice chilled
1 wedge
lime
Garnish: Lime wedge · Ice: Ice cubes
Cape Codder
Tart, lightly sweet and clean, with the lime adding a fresh edge. Light to medium strength.
The Cape Codder, often shortened to Cape Cod, is named after the peninsula in Massachusetts, one of the historic heartlands of American cranberry growing. Cranberry producers spent much of the mid 20th century encouraging people to drink cranberry juice beyond the Thanksgiving table, and simple mixed drinks were part of that push.
The vodka and cranberry combination went on to become one of the most ordered highballs in American bars. It is the base of a whole family: add grapefruit and it becomes a Sea Breeze, add pineapple and it is a Bay Breeze, add orange juice and peach schnapps and you are on the way to a Sex on the Beach. No inventor is known.
Yes. Cape Codder is the traditional name for vodka and cranberry juice, often served with lime.
It is named after Cape Cod in Massachusetts, a region known for growing cranberries.
Yes, gin and cranberry is a pleasant, more herbal twist, though it is no longer a classic Cape Codder.
The perfect sound
Cranberry bogs, sea breeze and a quiet harbour.
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