Liqueur · Shake · Highball · 5 min
Midori Illusion
An Australian party classic from the 1980s and 90s: Midori, vodka, Cointreau and pineapple, bright green and sweet-sour.
What's in it
- 30ml (1 oz) Midori
- 30ml (1 oz) Vodka
- 15ml (½ oz) Cointreau
- 60ml (2 oz) Pineapple juice
- 15ml (½ oz) Lemon juice
How to make it
- Fill a highball with ice.
- Shake the Midori, vodka, Cointreau, pineapple juice and lemon juice hard with ice.
- Strain into the glass over the fresh ice.
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What cocktail can I make?Where it came from
Who first mixed it is not recorded. Midori began as Suntory's Hermes Melon Liqueur in Japan in 1964 and was renamed for its American launch in 1978, at a Studio 54 party for the cast and crew of Saturday Night Fever. In Australia the green liqueur's big moment came in 1984, when French bartender Jean-Paul Bourguignon created the Japanese Slipper at Mietta's in Melbourne and promoted it around the country, and the Illusion came out of the same era of bright Midori drinks.
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