CLASSIC COCKTAIL · 1980–1999
Woo Woo
Vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice: three ingredients, one pink highball from the 1980s.
1980sDisputed classificationNeeds verification
The Woo Woo is a 1980s highball built on the same vodka-and-peach-schnapps base as the Sex on the Beach, minus the orange juice and with cranberry doing all the work. It belongs to the wave of sweet, pink, three-ingredient drinks that filled bar menus in the decade, and it survives in Britain and Australia more than in the United States. Nobody has produced a convincing first-pour story for it.
- Bottled and premixed versions appeared in the 1990s, which helped keep the recipe fixed at three ingredients.
- Woo Woo with a splash of lime
- Peach Woo Woo (peach juice instead of cranberry)
“The name is usually explained as an exclamation, not as a person or a place.”
THE RECIPESweet, tart and light
Ingredients
- Vodka40 ml
- Peach schnapps20 ml
- Cranberry juice100 ml
- Lime wedgeto garnish
Method
Build the vodka and schnapps over ice in a highball, top with cranberry juice, stir and garnish with a lime wedge.
Highball · ice · lime wedge