# Portonic

Portugal's dry white-Port aperitivo lengthens fortified wine with bitter tonic, ice, and lemon for a pale, brisk, lower-proof highball.

Strength: 7% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 50 ml [Dry white Port](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/dry-white-port.md)
- 100 ml [Tonic water](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/tonic-water.md)

## Glassware

Highball glass

## Garnish

- Lemon slice — Use one thin slice.

## Method

1. Fill a chilled highball glass with cubed ice and add the dry white Port.
2. Pour in the chilled tonic water gently and stir once.

## Related drinks

- [Beton](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/beton.md): Becherovka and tonic form the direct Czech herbal highball, where quinine lifts the liqueur’s cinnamon, clove, ginger, and citrus.
- [Gin & Tonic](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/gin-and-tonic.md): Cold tonic lengthens London dry gin without hiding it, joining juniper and citrus oils to quinine bitterness in a spare, exact highball.
- [Coffee Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/coffee-cocktail.md): Despite its name, this late-nineteenth-century flip contains no coffee: ruby Port, brandy, sugar, and a whole egg shake into a rich café-au-lait colour.
- [Porto Flip](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/porto-flip.md): A tawny port and brandy flip given a silky texture by egg yolk.
- [50/50 Martini](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/50-50-martini.md): An equal-parts Martini that lets fresh dry vermouth share the foreground with gin, lifted by orange bitters.
- [Tuxedo No. 1](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/tuxedo-no-1.md): Equal dry gin and vermouth, a broad lemon peel, and absinthe make Harry Craddock’s 1930 Tuxedo branch austere, aromatic, and deliberately distinct from the sweeter original.
- [Marguerite](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/marguerite.md): An equal-parts ancestor of the Dry Martini, softer and more wine-led, with orange bitters tying gin to vermouth.
- [Bloodhound](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/bloodhound.md): A Savoy-era perfect Gin Martini shaken with ripe strawberries, where dry juniper and vermouth keep the fresh fruit unexpectedly taut.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/portonic
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/portonic-998e92ba.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.taylor.pt/us/enjoy-port-wine/cocktails-with-port/port-tonic