Here are some lip-smacking delicious cocktail recipes for you to try.
Shivering Mountain Dry Gin & Soda
Shivering Mountain
Here's a classic with a twist of orange from this distillery that sits on a hillside overlooking Bronte country in the Peak District.
50ml Shivering Mountain Dry Gin
20ml Orange Liqueur
150ml Club Soda
Dash of Orange Bitters
Garnish: Dehydrated Orange Wheel or Fresh Orange Peel
Glass: Gin Copa or Wine Goblet
It's simple: fill glass with premium ice chunks/cubes. Pour gin, orange liqueur. Top with soda water, add dash of bitters. Stir, garnish and serve. The profile of this London Dry Gin with juniper and citrus flavours is enhanced with fruity notes from sloes and bilberries. These are combined with the lighter, sweeter, floral tones from gorse and heather to give a very smooth, warm and rich gin with a long but slightly spicy finish. To find out more about Shivering Mountain, click here
Gimlet Cocktail
Olive Magazine
No gin enthusiast should ever be without a tried-and-tested trusty gimlet recipe. This one makes for the ultimate refreshing summer drink, giving zing to the gin via the addition of lime juice and syrup, as well as a sprig of fresh mint to garnish. We love that it’s light and that you need not have several obscure spirits lurking amidst your drinks cabinet arsenal to make it. Plus, it never fails to pep us up. Cin-cin. Find the recipe here.
Rhubarb And Ginger Cocktail
Delicious Magazine
The great thing about gin is that it can really be anything you want it to be. In winter, it is warming; in summer, it is refreshing – it all depends on how you dress it up. We like this beautiful concoction which marries the two: it has ginger wine for warmth, rhubarb for an off-setting tartness, and a sprig of rosemary for a pleasingly aromatic addition. Find the recipe here.
Basilberry Smash
Advanced Mixology
Do you wish to transport yourself to Italy by tasting its very essence in a glass? Who doesn’t, frankly? As they say, fresh basil is an excellent counterbalance to a botanical gin, making it taste as much of Ligurian idylls as it smells of such earthly paradises. Fresh, light, and bursting with flavour, we love the top up of sparkling water for a frothy tipple that will cool you down in an instant. Find the recipe here.
Grapefruit Gin Fizz
Taste.com
We’re all for a cocktail that looks as pretty as a picture and yet does not require the skills of a master mixologist to put together. Simply fill a tall glass with ice, pour in the gin, squeeze in a slice of grapefruit and then add the tonic water. Do find your prettiest glasses for this pale pink number – and don’t forget to finish it off with a sprig of rosemary. So aesthetically pleasing we can hardly bear to drink it. (We will somehow manage it, though.) Find the recipe here.
The Elder Sage
Idealist Foods
Sage is a woefully underused herb, especially when it comes to making subtly flavoured cocktails. We love it brewed in a tea – but while we could drink gallons of that, it will never quite come close to stealing The Elder Sage’s crown for sheer deliciousness. Gin, St Germain, sage leaves and grapefruit juice: is there a happier combination on a summer’s day? As this foodie blog suggests, if you want to try a variant on this winner of a cocktail, do try the excellently named Wise Beekeeper, which is essentially the same recipe but made with sloe gin. Find the recipe here.
