Southside

The Southside — also written South Side — is a classic gin sour built from London dry gin, fresh lemon (or lime) juice, simple syrup and a handful of mint leaves, shaken hard with ice and double-strained into a chilled cocktail glass. It is, in effect, a gin Mojito served up: bright and tart, lightly sweet, and lifted by the cool green fragrance of bruised mint. Pale and cloudy in the glass, it is one of the enduring minty gin sours of the early twentieth century, and is closely associated with New York's storied 21 Club. A clean, refreshing drink, it sits in the same daisy and sour family as the Gimlet and the Gin Sour.