White Grape & Mint Cooler Mocktail Recipe
White grape juice with lime and a lot of mint — the closest a soft drink gets to a chilled white wine.
- Category: Mocktail
- Glass: Highball glass
- ABV: 0%
- Difficulty: Easy
- Prep time: ~3 min
- Alcohol-free: ✓
Ingredients
- Grape juice140 ml (4.7 oz)
- Fresh lime juice20 ml (0.7 oz)
- Simple syrup10 ml (0.3 oz)
- Fresh mint leaves10 piece
- Soda water60 ml (2 oz)
How to Make It
- Clap the mint and drop it into a highball glass.
- Fill with ice and add the grape juice, lime juice and syrup.
- Top with soda water and stir gently.
- Garnish with a mint bouquet and green grapes.
Garnish
Mint bouquet and green grapes
What it tastes like
Fruit notes come forward, mint leaves a cooling finish and it drinks cool and easy.
The technique
Built in the glass. Ice goes into the serving glass, the ingredients go on top, and you stir once if at all. Anything carbonated goes in LAST and never gets stirred; every turn of the spoon costs you bubbles. Fill the glass to the rim with ice: less ice melts faster, not slower.
Glass and ice
A tall, narrow highball. The narrowness does real work — less surface area means the carbonation lasts longer and the ice melts more slowly.
Ingredient notes and substitutes
- Fresh lime juice
- Freshly squeezed lime. Bottled lime tastes cooked and flat; one lime gives about 30 ml. If you have none, half lemon and half grapefruit juice comes closest.
- Simple syrup
- One part sugar to one part water, stirred until it dissolves — no need to boil it. Keeps a month in the fridge. No syrup? Use the same amount of honey, loosened with a little water.
- Fresh mint leaves
- The stem is bitter, so use the leaves. One clap between your palms before it goes in releases the oils and gives you the aroma without bruising it.
- Soda water
- Plain carbonated water. It goes in LAST and nothing is stirred after it. An open bottle goes flat fast, so small bottles make more sense than big ones.
The Story
Spanish tables have poured grape juice for the people not drinking since long before anyone called it a mocktail.
Frequently asked questions
- How is a White Grape & Mint Cooler mixed?
- It is built in the glass and served in a highball glass.
- Does a White Grape & Mint Cooler contain alcohol?
- No. It is safe to serve to children, to anyone pregnant, and to whoever is driving.
- Is a White Grape & Mint Cooler hard to make?
- Easy. No bar kit required — a measure, ice and a jar will do.
The main ingredient here is also a dream symbol: Grapes in a dream
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