Sea Breeze
A tart-sweet vodka highball with cranberry and bright grapefruit.
Base spirit
Vodka
Style
Highball
Glassware
Highball glass
Technique
Build
The Sea Breeze blends vodka with cranberry and grapefruit for a refreshing, bittersweet highball. Built over ice, it shows crisp citrus bitterness cut by cranberry’s red-fruit edge. The profile is clean, beachy, and refreshing. Compared with the Cape Codder, it adds dimension through grapefruit’s sharpness.
Did you know?
“In the 1980s vodka boom, the Sea Breeze became a bar-menu fixture; trade publications at the time listed it as one of the most ordered summer cocktails in the U.S.”
Source:PunchDrink archives; Imbibe
Bartender's Note
Add more grapefruit for a drier, brighter finish.
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How to make the Sea Breeze
- 1Fill a highball with ice.
- 2Add vodka, cranberry, and grapefruit.
- 3Stir.
- 4Garnish.
